ATI Radeon HD 4650 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 rated1194
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.89
ArchitectureGen. 4 (2007−2010)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameCrestlineRV730
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date9 May 2007 (17 years ago)10 September 2008 (16 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 cores8320
Core clock speed500 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistorsno data514 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)13.5 Watt48 Watt
Texture fill rateno data19.20
Floating-point processing powerno data0.384 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data32

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 data193 mm
Widthno data1-slot

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 dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data700 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data22.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 data2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX1010.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 May 2007 10 September 2008
Chip lithography 90 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 13 Watt 48 Watt

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 has 269.2% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 4650, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 63.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 and Radeon HD 4650. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 4650 is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
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