ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4500 Overview

Leap Beyond HD - Superior Graphics for Mainstream Notebooks

With all the latest features, the ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4500 series graphics processors deliver a superior visual experience with best in class performance on-the-go. Watch Blu-ray movies and HD content play with incredible visual fidelity¹. Take advantage of Blu-ray functionality using dual stream Picture-in-Picture capabilities^2,3. Experience visually-intense applications, videos and view pulsating photos with over 1 billion colors⁴. Enjoy best-in-class graphics realism and play the latest games with support for Microsoft DirectX® 10.1. The enhanced power management features let you do it all on-the-go without compromising on performance.

Features & Benefits

Save energy with the ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4500 series graphics which offers optimal performance-per-watt and break-through efficiency (in comparison with the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470)⁵.
The ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4500 series offers platform-independent intelligent power management delivering the power needed to run the most intense applications while intuitively conserving energy at idle or when demand is low.
With Vari-Bright™ technology battery life can be enhanced by optimizing the brightness of the display to save power so you don't have to compromise on performance⁶.
You can now have the best of both worlds with maximum performance when you need it and long battery life when on-the-go with the platform independent graphics switching technology.
With ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4500 series graphics watch the latest Blu-ray and HD movies play with incredible fidelity¹ - upscale to nearly twice the display resolution of HD content.^7,8 Take full advantage of Blu-ray functionality and enjoy bonus features with director commentaries using dual-stream, picture in picture (PIP) capabilities^2,3.
The ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4500 series graphics boast up to twice the performance of the previous generation¹⁰ of GPUs and deliver a cinematic gaming experience.
Play today while preparing for tomorrow with Microsoft DirectX® 10.1.

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FAQs

1. Blu-ray drive and HD capable monitor required.
2. Dual stream hardware decode is available only on ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4570. With the ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4530 standard stream is decoded on CPU.
3. Picture-in-Picture displayed in SD.
4. Requires a 10-bit display
5. ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4750 (680e/800m, GDDR3, 256MB) delivers 3x the performance-per-watt compared to the ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3470 (680e/800m, DDR3, 256MB). Performance measurements based on 3DMark Vantage (P) scores - on Puma platform, AMD Turion™ Ultra 2.4 GHz, 2GB DDR2-800, Vista SP1 32-bit.
6. Vari-Bright™ technology is a software based feature
7. The ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4570 can upscale video display to 2560x1600 on dual-link monitors which is almost twice the display resolution of 1080p displays.
8. Subject to available monitor resolution.
9. 7.1 surround sound with DRM limited to 6.144 Mpbs.
10. The ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4550 delivers 2x the processing power (80 stream processing units) compared with the ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3450 which delivers 40 stream processing units.

Performance, technologies and features listed above can vary with specific notebook implementations.

Please consult with Notebook vendor for a complete list of supported features.
ATI Radeon™ HD graphics chips have numerous features integrated into the processor itself (e.g., HDCP, HDMI, etc.). Third parties manufacturing products based on, or incorporating ATI Radeon HD graphics chips, may choose to enable some or all of these features. If a particular feature is important to you, please inquire of the manufacturer if a particular product supports this feature. In addition, some features or technologies may require you to purchase additional components in order to make full use of them (e.g. a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drive, HDCP-ready monitor, etc.).