T550 Mobile vs GMA X3000
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 443 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 37.76 |
| Architecture | Generation 4.0 (2006−2007) | Turing (2018−2022) |
| GPU code name | Broadwater | TU117 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Mobile workstation |
| Release date | 1 June 2006 (19 years ago) | May 2022 (3 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 cores | no data | 1024 |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | 1065 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1665 MHz |
| Number of transistors | no data | 4,700 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | 12 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 13 Watt | 23 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 4.000 | 106.6 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 3.41 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 1 | 32 |
| TMUs | 8 | 64 |
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 | no data | medium sized |
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
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 | System Shared | GDDR6 |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | 4 GB |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | 1500 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 96 GB/s |
| 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 | No outputs | No outputs |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c | 12 (12_1) |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | 6.6 |
| OpenGL | 2.0 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | N/A | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
| CUDA | - | 7.5 |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 1 June 2006 | on May 2022 |
| Chip lithography | 90 nm | 12 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 13 Watt | 23 Watt |
GMA X3000 has 76.9% lower power consumption.
T550 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 15 years, and a 650% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between GMA X3000 and T550 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that GMA X3000 is a notebook graphics card while T550 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.
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