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

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1135not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 7.5 Haswell (2012)Gen. 4.5 (2008)
GPU code nameHaswell GT1GL40
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 October 2012 (12 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 cores1010
Core clock speed200 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology22 nm65 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.

Memory bus width64/128 Bitno data
Shared memory++

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.110

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2012 1 October 2008
Chip lithography 22 nm 65 nm

HD Graphics (Haswell) has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 195.5% more advanced lithography process.

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