GMA 3150 vs Radeon HD 8970M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	523	1617
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	7.19	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code name	Neptune	Pineview
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	14 May 2013 (13 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	1280	16
Core clock speed	850 MHz	400 MHz
Boost clock speed	900 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2,800 million	123 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	13 Watt
Texture fill rate	72.00	0.8
Floating-point processing power	2.304 TFLOPS	0.0128 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	1
TMUs	80	2
L1 Cache	320 KB	no data
L2 Cache	512 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).

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 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	GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	153.6 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

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API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	9.0c
Shader Model	5.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

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.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

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FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	14 May 2013	9 May 2007
Chip lithography	28 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	13 Watt