GMA 950 vs VIA Chrome9 HC

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1515not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataGeneration 3.5 (2005)
GPU code nameVN896Lakeport
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 March 2007 (17 years ago)1 May 2005 (19 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 cores3no data
Core clock speed1 MHz166 MHz
Boost clock speed250 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technologyno data90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data7 Watt
Texture fill rateno data0.66
ROPsno data1
TMUsno data4

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16

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 typeonboardSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXonboard9.0c
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2007 1 May 2005

VIA Chrome9 HC has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between VIA Chrome9 HC and GMA 950. We've got no test results to judge.


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