GMA 3100 vs ATI Radeon 3100 IGP

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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
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code nameRS780Bearlake
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 August 2008 (16 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 cores40no data
Core clock speed344 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors180 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data13 Watt
Texture fill rate1.3761.600
Floating-point processing power0.02752 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs44

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 1.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
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.

DirectX10.0 (10_0)9.0c
Shader Model4.13.0
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.0N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 August 2008 9 May 2007
Chip lithography 65 nm 90 nm

ATI 3100 IGP has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 38.5% more advanced lithography process.

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