GMA 500 vs ATI FireGL V7300

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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
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)PowerVR SGX535 (2008−2010)
GPU code nameR520Poulsbo
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date1 October 2005 (19 years ago)2 March 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,599 no data

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 coresno data32
Core clock speed594 MHz200 MHz
Number of transistors321 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology90 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)97 Wattno data
Texture fill rate9.5040.8
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0128 TFLOPS
ROPs161
TMUs164

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length229 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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.

Memory typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed648 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth41.47 GB/sno 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)10.1
Shader Model3.04.1
OpenGL2.0ES 2.0
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2005 2 March 2008
Chip lithography 90 nm 130 nm

ATI FireGL V7300 has a 44.4% more advanced lithography process.

GMA 500, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between FireGL V7300 and GMA 500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireGL V7300 is a workstation graphics card while GMA 500 is a desktop one.


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