VIA S3G UniChrome Pro vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics
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 | Gen. 5 Arrandale (2010) | no data |
| GPU code name | GMA HD | Zoetrope |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 10 January 2010 (15 years ago) | 1 July 2004 (20 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 | 12 | 3 |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | 2 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | 45 nm | no data |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | 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 | + | + |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 10 | no data |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 10 January 2010 | 1 July 2004 |
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics has an age advantage of 5 years.
We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics and VIA S3G UniChrome Pro. We've got no test results to judge.
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