GMA 3600 vs GeForce Go 7200

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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
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)PowerVR SGX545 (2008−2010)
GPU code nameG72Cedarview
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 September 2006 (18 years 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 cores732
Core clock speed450 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed450 MHzno data
Number of transistors112 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology90 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data13 Watt
Texture fill rate1.8001.600
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0256 TFLOPS
ROPs11
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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCI
Widthno dataIGP

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 amount64 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width32 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed350 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth2.8 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)10.1
Shader Model3.04.1
OpenGL2.1ES 2.0
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2006 1 October 2008
Chip lithography 90 nm 65 nm

GMA 3600 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 38.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce Go 7200 and GMA 3600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce Go 7200 is a notebook card while GMA 3600 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200
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