Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1149not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.37no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Gen. 4.5 (2008)
GPU code nameM96Montevina
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 May 2010 (14 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 cores32010
Core clock speed450 MHz533 MHz
Number of transistors514 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Wattno data
Texture fill rate14.40no data
Floating-point processing power0.288 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs32no 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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no 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 typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed600 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth19.2 GB/sno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)10
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 May 2010 1 October 2008
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm

ATI Mobility HD 550v has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

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