ATI Radeon HD 4100 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | Gen. 4.5 (2008) | RV6xx (2008−2010) |
| GPU code name | Montevina | no data |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 1 October 2008 (16 years ago) | 1 November 2009 (15 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 cores | 10 | 40 |
| Core clock speed | 533 MHz | 350 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | 55 nm |
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.
| Maximum RAM amount | no data | 512 MB |
| Shared memory | + | + |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 10 | 10.1 |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 1 October 2008 | 1 November 2009 |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | 55 nm |
ATI HD 4100 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD and Radeon HD 4100. We've got no test results to judge.
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