Iris Plus Graphics vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated646
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.84
ArchitectureGen. 4.5 (2008)Generation 11.0 (2019−2021)
GPU code nameMontevinaIce Lake GT2
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2008 (16 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores10512
Core clock speed533 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology65 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data32.00
Floating-point processing powerno data1.024 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data32

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 dataPCIe 3.0 x1
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 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1012 (12_1)
OpenGLno data4.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 65 nm 10 nm

Iris Plus Graphics has a 550% more advanced lithography process.

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

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD is a notebook card while Iris Plus Graphics is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
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