GMA X4500MHD vs ATI Radeon HD 4890

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking701not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.45no data
Power efficiency1.41no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Generation 5.0 (2008)
GPU code nameRV790Cantiga
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date2 April 2009 (15 years ago)1 September 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$249 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores80080
Core clock speed850 MHz533 MHz
Number of transistors959 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)190 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate34.005.330
Floating-point processing power1.36 TFLOPS0.08528 TFLOPS
ROPs161
TMUs4010

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
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed975 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth124.8 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 Connectors2x DVI, 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
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2009 1 September 2008
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 190 Watt 13 Watt

ATI HD 4890 has an age advantage of 7 months, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

GMA X4500MHD, on the other hand, has 1361.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4890 and GMA X4500MHD. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4890 is a desktop card while GMA X4500MHD is a notebook one.


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