Mobility Radeon X1700 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD

Primary Details

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 4.5 (2008)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameMontevinaM66-P
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 October 2008 (15 years ago)1 February 2006 (18 years ago)

Detailed Specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1017
Core clock speed533 MHz5 MHz
Boost clock speedno data475 MHz
Number of transistorsno data157 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm90 nm
Texture fill rateno data1.900

Form Factor & Compatibility

Information on Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD and Mobility Radeon X1700 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16

Memory typeno dataDDR/DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data800 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data12.8 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

API Compatibility

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

DirectX109.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkanno dataN/A

Pros & Cons Summary


Recency 1 October 2008 1 February 2006
Chip lithography 65 nm 90 nm

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