Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650 vs NVS 3100M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1231not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGT2xx (2009−2012)PowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)
GPU code nameN10M-NSCedar Trail
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)1 November 2011 (12 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 cores164
Core clock speed600 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data640 MHz
Number of transistors260 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.848no data
Floating-point performance0.04698 gflopsno data

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no 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.

Memory typeGDDR3, DDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount512 MBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed800 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth12.64 GB/sno data
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 outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)no data
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 1 November 2011
Chip lithography 40 nm 32 nm

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between NVS 3100M and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that NVS 3100M is a mobile workstation card while Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650 is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA NVS 3100M
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