Silicon Motion SM502 vs VIA Castle Rock

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Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
GPU code nameCLE266no data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 January 2003 (21 year ago)1 January 2007 (17 years ago)
Current price$46 no data

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3no data
Core clock speed2 MHzno 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.

Shared memory++

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 January 2003 1 January 2007

We couldn't decide between VIA Castle Rock and Silicon Motion SM502. We've got no test results to judge.


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