GMA 3150 vs GeForce 305M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1361	1617
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.99	no data
Architecture	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)	Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code name	GT218	Pineview
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	10 January 2010 (16 years ago)	9 May 2007 (19 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. Real power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially if overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	16
Core clock speed	525 MHz	400 MHz
Number of transistors	260 million	123 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	13 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.200	0.8
Floating-point processing power	0.0368 TFLOPS	0.0128 TFLOPS
Gigaflops	55	no data
ROPs	4	1
TMUs	8	2
L2 Cache	32 KB	no data

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).

Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI

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 type	GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	Up to 512 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	64 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	Up to 700 (DDR3), Up to 700 (GDDR3) MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI	No outputs
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	+	-
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management

8.0

no data

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)	9.0c
Shader Model	4.1	3.0
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	10 January 2010	9 May 2007
Chip lithography	40 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	13 Watt