Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 4.5 (2008)PowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)
GPU code nameGL40Cedar Trail
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 October 2008 (16 years ago)1 November 2011 (13 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 cores104
Core clock speed400 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data640 MHz
Manufacturing process technology65 nm32 nm

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.

Shared memory++

API compatibility

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

DirectX10no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2008 1 November 2011
Chip lithography 65 nm 32 nm

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650 has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 103.1% more advanced lithography process.

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M
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