Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M vs HD Graphics 500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1146not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency9.17no data
ArchitectureGeneration 9.0 (2015−2016)Gen. 4.5 (2008)
GPU code nameApollo Lake GT1GL40
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 September 2015 (9 years ago)1 October 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 cores9610
Core clock speed200 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed650 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Wattno data
Texture fill rate7.800no data
Floating-point processing power0.1248 TFLOPSno data
ROPs2no data
TMUs12no data

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).

InterfaceRing Busno data
WidthIGPno data

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 typeDDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4no data
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedno data
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno data
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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependentno data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)10
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2015 1 October 2008
Chip lithography 14 nm 65 nm

HD Graphics 500 has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

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

Be aware that HD Graphics 500 is a desktop card while Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M is a notebook one.


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Intel HD Graphics 500
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