Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 vs GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE)

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	no data	Gen. 3 (2005)
GPU code name	MCP79MX	GMA 900
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	14 October 2008 (15 years ago)	1 March 2005 (19 years ago)
Current price	$1030	no data

Detailed specifications

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 cores	16	4
Core clock speed	450 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	no data	400 MHz
Number of transistors	282 Million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	12 Watt	no 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.

Shared memory

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API compatibility

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

DirectX

10.0

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	14 October 2008	1 March 2005
Chip lithography	65 nm	130 nm

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