Radeon R5 235 OEM vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics

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. 5 Arrandale (2010)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGMA HDCaicos
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 January 2010 (14 years ago)21 December 2013 (10 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 cores12160
Core clock speed500 MHz775 MHz
Number of transistorsno data370 million
Manufacturing process technology45 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data6.200
Floating-point processing powerno data0.248 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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 dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
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 dataDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data14.4 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 data1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX1011.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2010 21 December 2013
Chip lithography 45 nm 40 nm

R5 235 OEM has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 12.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics and Radeon R5 235 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics is a notebook card while Radeon R5 235 OEM is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics
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AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM
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