RS780 vs Radeon HD 3100

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	RV6xx (2007−2010)	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	RS780MC	RS780
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	1 August 2008 (15 years ago)	no data
Current price	$65	$22

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	40	40
Core clock speed	350 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	no data	180 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm

Memory

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.

Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	no data
Shared memory	+	no data

API support

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

DirectX	10	10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model	no data	4.1
OpenGL	no data	3.3
OpenCL	no data	1.0
Vulkan	no data	N/A

Advantages and disadvantages

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Chip lithography

55 nm

65 nm

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