Radeon HD 3300 IGP vs GeForce GTX 490

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Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGF100RS780
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data6 August 2008 (15 years ago)
Current price$315 no data

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores48040
Core clock speed608 MHz494 MHz
Boost clock speedno data695 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million180 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)365 Wattno data
Texture fill rate36.482.780

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
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1536 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed3.4 GB/sSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth164.0 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 Connectors3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.11.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0no data

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm

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