GMA X4500HD vs Radeon HD 6850

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking626not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.05no data
Power efficiency2.75no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 5.0 (2008)
GPU code nameBartsEaglelake
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date21 October 2010 (14 years ago)1 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$179 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 cores960no data
Core clock speedno data533 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)127 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate37.202.132
Floating-point processing power1.488 TFLOPSno data
ROPs324
TMUs484

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).

Bus supportAGPno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length198 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth128.0 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1110.0
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 October 2010 1 June 2008
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 127 Watt 13 Watt

HD 6850 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

GMA X4500HD, on the other hand, has 876.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6850 and GMA X4500HD. We've got no test results to judge.


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