GMA X4500MHD vs Radeon HD 6550M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1009not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.62no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 5.0 (2008)
GPU code nameLexingtonCantiga
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date26 November 2010 (13 years ago)1 September 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 cores40080
Core clock speed600 MHz533 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate12.005.330
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPS0.08528 TFLOPS
ROPs81
TMUs2010

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)10.0
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 November 2010 1 September 2008
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 26 Watt 13 Watt

HD 6550M has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

GMA X4500MHD, on the other hand, has 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6550M and GMA X4500MHD. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6550M is a notebook card while GMA X4500MHD is a desktop one.


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