GMA X3100 vs Quadro NVS 135M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1434not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.89no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code nameG86Broadwater
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date9 May 2007 (17 years ago)9 May 2007 (17 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 cores16no data
Core clock speed400 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors210 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology80 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate3.2004.000
Floating-point processing power0.0256 TFLOPSno data
ROPs41
TMUs88

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 x16PCIe 1.0 x16

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed594 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth9.504 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 outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)9.0c
Shader Model4.03.0
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 80 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 13 Watt

NVS 135M has a 12.5% more advanced lithography process, and 30% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 135M and GMA X3100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro NVS 135M is a mobile workstation card while GMA X3100 is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M
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Intel GMA X3100
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