Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6500

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Gen. 4 (2007−2010)
GPU code nameNV44 A2Crestline
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 October 2005 (18 years old)9 May 2007 (16 years old)
Current price$343 $77

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data8
Core clock speed400 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors75 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology110 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data13.5 Watt
Texture fill rate1.600no data

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 6500 and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16no data
Width1-slotno data

Memory

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 typeDDR2no data
Maximum RAM amount128 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed532 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth8.512 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data-

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Videono data

API support

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)10
Shader Model3.0no data
OpenGL2.1no data
OpenCLN/Ano data
VulkanN/Ano data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 October 2005 9 May 2007
Chip lithography 110 nm 90 nm

We couldn't decide between GeForce 6500 and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 6500 is a desktop card while Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 is a notebook one.


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