ATI Radeon X700 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)R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code nameMontevinaRV410
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2008 (16 years ago)1 September 2004 (20 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 cores10no data
Core clock speed533 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistorsno data120 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data44 Watt
Texture fill rateno data3.200
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data8

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 1.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data128 MB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data8 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 data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX109.0b (9_2)
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2008 1 September 2004
Chip lithography 65 nm 110 nm

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 69.2% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD and Radeon X700. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD is a notebook card while Radeon X700 is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
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