GeForce 720A vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1048
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data3.22
ArchitectureGen. 4 (2007−2010)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code namePineviewGF117
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 January 2010 (16 years ago)1 July 2014 (11 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 cores296
Core clock speedno data775 MHz
Boost clock speed200 MHz938 MHz
Number of transistors123 Million585 million
Manufacturing process technology45 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data33 Watt
Texture fill rateno data15.01
Floating-point processing powerno data0.1801 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16
L1 Cacheno data128 KB
L2 Cacheno data128 KB

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16

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 typeno dataDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data16 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectXno data12 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2010 1 July 2014
Chip lithography 45 nm 28 nm

GeForce 720A has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 61% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150 and GeForce 720A. We've got no test results to judge.

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