Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150 vs Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	350	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	6.55	no data
Architecture	GCN (2012−2015)	Gen. 4 (2007−2010)
GPU code name	Neptune CF	Pineview
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 May 2012 (13 years ago)	10 January 2010 (15 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 cores	2560	2
Core clock speed	850 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	900 MHz	200 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	123 Million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	200 Watt	no data

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 size

large

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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 type	GDDR5	no data
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	no data
Shared memory	-	+

API and SDK support

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

DirectX

11.1

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 May 2012	10 January 2010
Chip lithography	28 nm	45 nm

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