Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M vs Radeon HD 6520G

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1143not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.52no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Gen. 4.5 (2008)
GPU code nameSumoGL40
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date7 December 2011 (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 cores32010
Core clock speed400 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology32 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattno data
Texture fill rate6.400no data
Floating-point processing power0.256 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs16no 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).

InterfaceIGPno data
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem Sharedno data
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedno data
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedno data
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno 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.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)10
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 December 2011 1 October 2008
Chip lithography 32 nm 65 nm

HD 6520G has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 103.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6520G and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6520G is a desktop card while Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M is a notebook one.


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