UHD Graphics 605 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1071
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data17.17
ArchitecturePowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)Generation 9.5 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameCedar TrailGemini Lake GT1.5
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 November 2011 (12 years ago)11 December 2017 (6 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 cores4144
Core clock speedno data200 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHz750 MHz
Number of transistorsno data189 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data5 Watt
Texture fill rateno data13.50
Floating-point processing powerno data0.216 TFLOPS
ROPsno data3
TMUsno data18

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 dataRing Bus

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 dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory++

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 dataPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 1
UHD Graphics 605 2162
+216100%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2011 11 December 2017
Chip lithography 32 nm 14 nm

UHD Graphics 605 has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 128.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 and UHD Graphics 605. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600
Intel UHD Graphics 605
UHD Graphics 605

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