Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M vs Radeon R7 240

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking841not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.16no data
Power efficiency5.61no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Gen. 4.5 (2008)
GPU code nameOlandGL40
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date8 October 2013 (11 years ago)1 October 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$69 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 cores32010
Core clock speedno data400 MHz
Boost clock speed780 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate14.00no data
Floating-point processing power0.448 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs20no 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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8no data
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsN/Ano 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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1150 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth72 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAno data
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

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

CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1210
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 October 2013 1 October 2008
Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm

R7 240 has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 240 and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 240 is a desktop card while Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R7 240
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