Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 vs GeForce 9800M GTS

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1190	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.87	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Gen. 3 (2005)
GPU code name	G94	GMA 900
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	29 July 2008 (17 years ago)	1 March 2005 (20 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	64	4
Core clock speed	600 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	no data	400 MHz
Number of transistors	505 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	19.20	no data
Floating-point processing power	0.192 TFLOPS	no data
Gigaflops	240	no data
ROPs	16	no data
TMUs	32	no data
L2 Cache	64 KB	no data

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	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	GDDR3	no data
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	no data
Memory bus width	256 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB/s	no data
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

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API and SDK support

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	no data
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	3.3	no data
OpenCL	1.1	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	29 July 2008	1 March 2005
Chip lithography	65 nm	130 nm

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