GMA 3600 vs GeForce FX 5600 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)PowerVR SGX545 (2008−2010)
GPU code nameNV31Cedarview
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 March 2003 (21 year ago)1 October 2008 (16 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 coresno data32
Core clock speed235 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors80 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology130 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data13 Watt
Texture fill rate0.941.600
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0256 TFLOPS
ROPs41
TMUs44

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCI
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed200 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

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 outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a10.1
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)ES 2.0
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2003 1 October 2008
Chip lithography 130 nm 65 nm

GMA 3600 has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5600 XT and GMA 3600. We've got no test results to judge.


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