Qualcomm Adreno 685 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated828
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 4.5 (2008)no data
GPU code nameGL40no data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 October 2008 (15 years ago)6 December 2018 (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 cores10no data
Core clock speed400 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data7 Watt

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.

DirectX1012

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2008 6 December 2018
Chip lithography 65 nm 7 nm

Qualcomm Adreno 685 has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

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