Silicon Motion SM502 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 | no data |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 1 November 2011 (13 years ago) | 1 January 2007 (17 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 | no data |
| Boost clock speed | 400 MHz | no data |
| Manufacturing process technology | 32 nm | 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.
| Shared memory | + | + |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 1 November 2011 | 1 January 2007 |
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 has an age advantage of 4 years.
We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 and Silicon Motion SM502. We've got no test results to judge.
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