Atari VCS 400 GPU vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900

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
ArchitectureGen. 3 (2005)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGMA 900Banded Kestrel
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 2005 (19 years ago)14 December 2020 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$249

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 data300 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHz1201 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data14.41
Floating-point processing powerno data0.4612 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
Lengthno data295 mm
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 dataDDR4
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data38.4 GB/s
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 data12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2005 14 December 2020
Chip lithography 130 nm 14 nm

Atari VCS 400 GPU has an age advantage of 15 years, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 and Atari VCS 400 GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 is a notebook card while Atari VCS 400 GPU is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900
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AMD Atari VCS 400 GPU
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