UHD Graphics vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated599
Place by popularitynot in top-1007
ArchitectureGen. 4.5 (2008)Generation 11.0 (2019−2021)
GPU code nameGL40Jasper Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2008 (15 years ago)11 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10256
Core clock speed400 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data750 MHz
Manufacturing process technology65 nm10 nm+
Power consumption (TDP)no data10 Watt
Texture fill rateno data12.00
Floating-point processing powerno data0.384 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataRing Bus
Widthno dataIGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2008 11 January 2021
Chip lithography 65 nm 10 nm

UHD Graphics has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 550% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M and UHD Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M is a notebook card while UHD Graphics is a desktop one.


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