Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M vs Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G7

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking447not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Gen. 4.5 (2008)
GPU code nameTiger Lake XeGL40
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 August 2020 (4 years ago)1 October 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 cores9610
Core clock speedno data400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology10 nm65 nm

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 typeDDR4no data
Shared memory++

Supported technologies

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Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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DirectXDirectX 12_110

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 August 2020 1 October 2008
Chip lithography 10 nm 65 nm

Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G7 has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 550% more advanced lithography process.

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