HD Graphics 12EU vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 4.5 (2008)Generation 5.75 (2010)
GPU code nameMontevinaIronlake
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2008 (16 years ago)10 January 2010 (14 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 cores1096
Core clock speed533 MHz533 MHz
Number of transistorsno data177 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data6.396
Floating-point processing powerno data0.1023 TFLOPS
ROPsno data2
TMUsno data12

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 dataQPI
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 dataMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1010.1
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2008 10 January 2010
Chip lithography 65 nm 45 nm

HD Graphics 12EU has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 44.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD and HD Graphics 12EU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD is a notebook card while HD Graphics 12EU is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
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