Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD vs Quadro NVS 160M

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
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Gen. 4.5 (2008)
GPU code nameG98Montevina
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date15 August 2008 (16 years ago)1 October 2008 (15 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 cores810
Core clock speed580 MHz533 MHz
Number of transistors210 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.640no data
Floating-point processing power0.0232 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no 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).

InterfaceMXM-Ino 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 amount256 MBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed700 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth11.2 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.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 August 2008 1 October 2008

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD has an age advantage of 1 month.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 160M and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro NVS 160M is a mobile workstation card while Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M
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