Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 vs GeForce FX Go 5200

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
Architectureno dataPowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)
GPU code nameNV31MCedar Trail
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 March 2003 (21 year ago)1 November 2011 (12 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 cores54
Core clock speed1 MHzno data
Boost clock speed300 MHz400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology150 nm32 nm

Form factor & compatibility

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Laptop sizemedium sizedno 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 typeDDRno data
Maximum RAM amount32 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Shared memory-+

API compatibility

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

DirectXDDRno data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2003 1 November 2011
Chip lithography 150 nm 32 nm

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 368.8% more advanced lithography process.

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NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200
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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600
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