ATI Radeon HD 4250 vs Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4250 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 4250

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4250

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
Around 49% higher core clock speed: 594 MHz vs 400 MHz
4x more pipelines: 40 vs 10
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm

Launch date	25 February 2009 vs 1 October 2008
Core clock speed	594 MHz vs 400 MHz
Pipelines	40 vs 10
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4250
GPU 2: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4250	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M
PassMark - G2D Mark	408
PassMark - G3D Mark	123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	782
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	782

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4250	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale
Code name	RV620	GL40
Launch date	25 February 2009	1 October 2008
Place in performance rating	839	not rated
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	594 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	47.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	40	10
Texture fill rate	2.376 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt
Transistor count	181 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.34 GB / s
Memory clock speed	792 MHz
Shared memory	yes	yes
Memory type		mit Hauptspeicher geteilt (shared) bis 384 MB
Technologies
HDCP support
PCI-E 2.0