Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD vs Radeon R9 290X

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking290not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.90no data
Power efficiency4.55no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Gen. 4.5 (2008)
GPU code nameHawaiiMontevina
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date24 October 2013 (11 years ago)1 October 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$549 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 cores281610
Core clock speedno data533 MHz
Boost clock speed947 MHzno data
Number of transistors6,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Wattno data
Texture fill rate176.0no data
Floating-point processing power5.632 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs176no 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 x16no data
Length275 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width512 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth320 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortno data
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HDMI+-
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

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

AppAcceleration+-
CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
LiquidVR+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudio+-
UVD+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1210
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan+-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

R9 290X 73987
+50926%
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD 145

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 October 2013 1 October 2008
Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm

R9 290X has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 290X and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 290X is a desktop card while Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD is a notebook one.


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