GMA 3150 vs ATI FireGL V3200

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1536
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.05
ArchitectureRage 9 (2003−2006)Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code nameRV380Pineview
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date1 September 2004 (20 years ago)9 May 2007 (17 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. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data16
Core clock speed500 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors75 million123 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)46 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate2.0000.8
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0128 TFLOPS
ROPs41
TMUs42

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCI
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed350 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth11.2 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0b9.0c
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGL2.02.0
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2004 9 May 2007
Chip lithography 130 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 46 Watt 13 Watt

GMA 3150 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 188.9% more advanced lithography process, and 253.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FireGL V3200 and GMA 3150. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireGL V3200 is a workstation card while GMA 3150 is a notebook one.


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