GeForce4 4200 Go 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 rated1519
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 4.5 (2008)no data
GPU code nameGL40NV28M
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 October 2008 (16 years ago)15 November 2002 (22 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 cores106
Core clock speed400 MHz2 MHz
Boost clock speedno data200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology65 nm150 nm

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

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 dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data128 MB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data200 MHz
Shared memory+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX10DDR

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2008 15 November 2002
Chip lithography 65 nm 150 nm

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 130.8% more advanced lithography process.

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M
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NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go
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