Iris Xe Graphics MAX vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated623
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data14.03
ArchitectureGen. 4 (2007−2010)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameCrestlineDG1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date9 May 2007 (17 years ago)31 October 2020 (4 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 cores8768
Core clock speed500 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology90 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)13.5 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rateno data79.20
Floating-point processing powerno data2.534 TFLOPS
ROPsno data24
TMUsno data48

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 4.0 x4
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 dataLPDDR4X
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data4.3 GB/s
Memory bandwidthno data68.26 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.

DirectX1012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 May 2007 31 October 2020
Chip lithography 90 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 13 Watt 25 Watt

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 has 92.3% lower power consumption.

Iris Xe Graphics MAX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, and a 800% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 and Iris Xe Graphics MAX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 is a notebook card while Iris Xe Graphics MAX is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
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