A10 PCIe vs ATI Mobility 128 M3

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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
Architectureno dataAmpere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameM3GA102
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 February 2000 (24 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 coresno data9216
Core clock speedno data885 MHz
Boost clock speed105 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistorsno data28,300 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data150 Watt
Texture fill rateno data488.2
Floating-point processing powerno data31.24 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data288
Tensor Coresno data288
Ray Tracing Coresno data72

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 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-pin EPS

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 MB24 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed105 MHz1563 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data600.2 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXDDR12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 February 2000 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 MB 24 GB

A10 PCIe has an age advantage of 21 year, and a 307100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Mobility 128 M3 and A10 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility 128 M3 is a notebook card while A10 PCIe is a desktop one.


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