Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M vs Radeon HD 3450

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	Gen. 4.5 (2008)
GPU code name	RV620	GL40
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	10 December 2007 (16 years ago)	1 October 2008 (15 years ago)
Current price	$56	$77

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	40	10
Core clock speed	600 MHz	400 MHz
Number of transistors	181 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	2.400	no data
Floating-point performance	48 gflops	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 3450 and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

Memory

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 type	DDR2	no data
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	no data
Memory bus width	64 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	8 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	no data	+

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

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API support

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

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	10
Shader Model	4.1	no data
OpenGL	3.3	no data
OpenCL	N/A	no data
Vulkan	N/A	no data

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	10 December 2007	1 October 2008
Chip lithography	55 nm	65 nm

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