GMA X4500 vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1325not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.71no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Generation 5.0 (2008)
GPU code nameRV620Eaglelake
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date23 January 2008 (16 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 speed800 MHz533 MHz
Number of transistors181 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate3.2002.132
Floating-point processing power0.064 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 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed950 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth15.2 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo 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
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 January 2008 1 June 2008
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 13 Watt

ATI HD 3470 has a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

GMA X4500, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months, and 130.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3470 and GMA X4500. We've got no test results to judge.


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