Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 vs GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	no data	Gen. 4 (2007−2010)
GPU code name	MCP79MX	Crestline
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	14 October 2008 (16 years ago)	9 May 2007 (17 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	16	8
Core clock speed	450 MHz	500 MHz
Number of transistors	282 Million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	12 Watt	13.5 Watt

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

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API compatibility

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

DirectX

10.0

10

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	14 October 2008	9 May 2007
Chip lithography	65 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	12 Watt	13 Watt

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