ATI Mobility Radeon M7 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600
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 | PowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011) | no data |
| GPU code name | Cedar Trail | M7 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 1 November 2011 (13 years ago) | 1 December 2001 (23 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 cores | 4 | 3 |
| Core clock speed | no data | 1 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 400 MHz | 230 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | 32 nm | 180 nm |
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 | no data | DDR |
| Maximum RAM amount | no data | 32 MB |
| Memory bus width | no data | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | no data | 183 MHz |
| Shared memory | + | - |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | no data | DDR |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 1 November 2011 | 1 December 2001 |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | 180 nm |
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 462.5% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 and Mobility Radeon M7. We've got no test results to judge.
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