Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD

Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 4.5 (2008)PowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)
GPU code nameMontevinaGMA 500
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 October 2008 (16 years ago)1 November 2008 (16 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 speed533 MHz200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology65 nm130 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.

DirectX1010.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2008 1 November 2008
Chip lithography 65 nm 130 nm

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 month.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
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