Radeon Vega 3 Efficient vs ATI HD 3100

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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
ArchitectureRV6xx (2008−2010)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameRS780MCRaven
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 August 2008 (16 years ago)26 May 2018 (6 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 cores40192
Core clock speed350 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1000 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data12.00
Floating-point processing powerno data0.384 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data12

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 dataIGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory+no data

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.

DirectX1012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2008 26 May 2018
Chip lithography 55 nm 14 nm

Vega 3 Efficient has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 292.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3100 and Radeon Vega 3 Efficient. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3100 is a notebook card while Radeon Vega 3 Efficient is a desktop one.


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