Radeon X1900 XT vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD

Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 4.5 (2008)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameMontevinaR580
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2008 (15 years ago)24 January 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$299
Current priceno data$5.99 (0x MSRP)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10no data
Core clock speed533 MHz625 MHz
Number of transistorsno data384 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data100 Watt
Texture fill rateno data10.00

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD and Radeon X1900 XT compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1450 MBps
Memory bandwidthno data46.4 GB/s
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 data2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX109.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkanno dataN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2008 24 January 2006
Chip lithography 65 nm 90 nm

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD and Radeon X1900 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD is a notebook card while Radeon X1900 XT is a desktop one.


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