Radeon 740M vs GMA 3000

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated545
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data12.74
ArchitectureGeneration 4.0 (2006−2007)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2025)
GPU code nameBroadwaterPhoenix2
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2006 (18 years ago)31 January 2024 (1 year 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 data256
Core clock speed400 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2800 MHz
Number of transistorsno data20,900 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)13 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate1.60044.80
Floating-point processing powerno data2.867 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs416
Ray Tracing Coresno data4

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memory++

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 outputsMotherboard Dependent

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.8
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2006 31 January 2024
Chip lithography 90 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 13 Watt 45 Watt

GMA 3000 has 246.2% lower power consumption.

Radeon 740M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 17 years, and a 2150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GMA 3000 and Radeon 740M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GMA 3000 is a notebook card while Radeon 740M is a desktop one.

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Intel GMA 3000
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AMD Radeon 740M
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