Radeon HD 7540D IGP vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameCedar TrailScrapper
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 November 2011 (13 years ago)2 October 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$67

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 cores4192
Core clock speedno data760 MHz
Boost clock speed640 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data65 Watt
Texture fill rateno data9.120
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2918 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data12

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 dataIGP
Widthno dataIGP

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+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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data11.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2011 2 October 2012

HD 7540D IGP has an age advantage of 11 months.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650 and Radeon HD 7540D IGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 7540D IGP is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650
AMD Radeon HD 7540D IGP
Radeon HD 7540D IGP

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