GMA X4500 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Generation 5.0 (2008)
GPU code nameRS880Eaglelake
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 September 2009 (15 years ago)1 June 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 cores4080
Core clock speed498 MHz533 MHz
Number of transistors181 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data13 Watt
Texture fill rate1.9922.132
Floating-point processing power0.03984 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs44

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memory+no data

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)10.0
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.0N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 September 2009 1 June 2008
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm

ATI Mobility HD 4200 IGP has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP and GMA X4500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP is a notebook card while GMA X4500 is a desktop one.


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