GMA X4500 vs ATI Radeon HD 4550

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1202not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.67no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Generation 5.0 (2008)
GPU code nameRV710Eaglelake
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date30 September 2008 (16 years ago)1 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$59 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores8080
Core clock speed600 MHz533 MHz
Number of transistors242 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate4.8002.132
Floating-point processing power0.096 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs84

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed655 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth10.48 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)10.0
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 September 2008 1 June 2008
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 13 Watt

ATI HD 4550 has an age advantage of 3 months, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

GMA X4500, on the other hand, has 92.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4550 and GMA X4500. We've got no test results to judge.


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