GMA 3000 vs Radeon HD 7950M

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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
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code nameWimbledonBroadwater
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date24 April 2012 (12 years ago)1 June 2006 (18 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 cores1280no data
Core clock speed700 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate56.001.600
Floating-point processing power1.792 TFLOPSno data
ROPs324
TMUs804

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP

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 amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/sno data
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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0c
Shader Model5.13.0
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 April 2012 1 June 2006
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 13 Watt

HD 7950M has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

GMA 3000, on the other hand, has 476.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7950M and GMA 3000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7950M is a notebook card while GMA 3000 is a desktop one.


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