Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD vs Radeon HD 4270

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	RV6xx (2007−2010)	Gen. 4.5 (2008)
GPU code name	RS880M	Montevina
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 May 2010 (13 years ago)	1 October 2008 (15 years ago)

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	590 MHz	533 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm

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.

Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	no data
Shared memory	+	+

API support

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

DirectX

10.1

10

Advantages and disadvantages

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

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