Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1365not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.37no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Gen. 4.5 (2008)
GPU code nameM82GL40
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2008 (16 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 cores4010
Core clock speed680 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors181 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Wattno data
Texture fill rate2.720no data
Floating-point processing power0.0544 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs4no data

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).

InterfaceMXM-IIno data

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 typeDDR2no data
Maximum RAM amount256 MBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed400 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.110
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCLN/Ano data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2008 1 October 2008
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm

ATI Mobility HD 3470 has a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 months.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 3470 and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M. We've got no test results to judge.


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