Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M vs HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1192	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2012)	Gen. 4.5 (2008)
GPU code name	Ivy Bridge GT1	GL40
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 October 2012 (12 years ago)	1 October 2008 (16 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	6	10
Core clock speed	350 MHz	400 MHz
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	no data
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm	65 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.

Memory bus width	64/128 Bit	no data
Shared memory	+	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX

11.0

10

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 October 2012	1 October 2008
Chip lithography	22 nm	65 nm

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