Tegra 3: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Tegra 3 sales 9 November 2011. This is a desktop graphics card based on a VLIW Vec4 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated video card. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 20 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about Tegra 3: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | VLIW Vec4 (2010−2013) | |
| GPU code name | Tegra 3 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 9 November 2011 (12 years ago) | |
| Current price | $150 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
Tegra 3's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Tegra 3's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 416 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 520 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 10 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 20 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 4.160 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Tegra 3 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | IGP | |
| Width | IGP |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Tegra 3: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | System Shared | |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Tegra 3. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by Tegra 3, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | N/A | |
| OpenGL | ES 2.0 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Tegra 3 according to our statistics.
