GMA X3500 vs GeForce GTX 260 OEM

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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
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code nameGT200BBearlake
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date8 December 2009 (14 years ago)1 August 2007 (17 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 cores192no data
Core clock speed518 MHz667 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)182 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate33.155.336
Floating-point processing power0.4147 TFLOPSno data
ROPs281
TMUs648

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1792 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width448 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1008 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth112.9 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)9.0c
Shader Model4.03.0
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 December 2009 1 August 2007
Chip lithography 55 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 182 Watt 13 Watt

GTX 260 OEM has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 63.6% more advanced lithography process.

GMA X3500, on the other hand, has 1300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 260 OEM and GMA X3500. We've got no test results to judge.


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