GMA X3100 vs ATI Radeon HD 5770

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking665not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.89no data
Power efficiency2.85no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code nameJuniperBroadwater
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date13 October 2009 (15 years ago)9 May 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores800no data
Core clock speed850 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)108 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate34.004.000
Floating-point processing power1.36 TFLOPSno data
ROPs161
TMUs408

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
Length208 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed4800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth76.8 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)9.0c
Shader Model5.03.0
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 October 2009 9 May 2007
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 108 Watt 13 Watt

ATI HD 5770 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

GMA X3100, on the other hand, has 730.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5770 and GMA X3100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5770 is a desktop card while GMA X3100 is a notebook one.


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