GeForce MX230 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated645
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data32.56
ArchitectureGen. 4.5 (2008)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameGL40GP108
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 October 2008 (16 years ago)21 February 2019 (5 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 cores10256
Core clock speed400 MHz1519 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1582 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data10 Watt
Texture fill rateno data25.31
Floating-point processing powerno data0.81 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data16

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1502 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data48.06 GB/s
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 dataNo outputs

Supported technologies

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

Optimus-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX1012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2008 21 February 2019
Chip lithography 65 nm 14 nm

GeForce MX230 has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M and GeForce MX230. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M
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