AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 400 MHz
160x more pipelines: 1600 vs 10
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm

Launch date	14 January 2013 vs 1 October 2008
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 400 MHz
Pipelines	1600 vs 10
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2
Code name	Cypress	GL40
Launch date	14 January 2013	1 October 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,720 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	1600	10
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	282 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	134.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	mit Hauptspeicher geteilt (shared) bis 384 MB
Shared memory		yes