GMA 500 vs GeForce3

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Kelvin (2001−2003)	PowerVR SGX535 (2008−2010)
GPU code name	NV20 A5	Poulsbo
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	27 February 2001 (23 years ago)	2 March 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$499	no data

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 cores	no data	32
Core clock speed	200 MHz	200 MHz
Number of transistors	57 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1.600	0.8
Floating-point processing power	no data	0.0128 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	1
TMUs	8	4

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).

Interface	AGP 4x	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	165 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None	no 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 type	SDR	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	230 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	3.68 GB/s	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 Connectors

1x VGA, 1x DB13W3

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	8.0	10.1
Shader Model	no data	4.1
OpenGL	1.3	ES 2.0
OpenCL	N/A	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	27 February 2001	2 March 2008
Chip lithography	150 nm	130 nm

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