Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150 vs GeForce 9500M GE

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	no data	Gen. 4 (2007−2010)
GPU code name	MCP79Mx + NB9M	Pineview
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	9 January 2008 (16 years ago)	10 January 2010 (14 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	24	2
Boost clock speed	no data	200 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	123 Million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	25 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.

Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	no data
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	no data
Memory bus width	64 Bit	no data
Shared memory	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX

10.0

no data

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	9 January 2008	10 January 2010
Chip lithography	65 nm	45 nm

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