Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 vs GeForce 9600M GT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1278not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.07no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Gen. 4 (2007−2010)
GPU code nameG96CCrestline
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 June 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 cores328
Core clock speed120 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors314 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt13.5 Watt
Texture fill rate8.000no data
Floating-point processing power0.08 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs16no data

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-IIno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount512 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed800 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
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 outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2008 9 May 2007
Chip lithography 55 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 13 Watt

9600M GT has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 63.6% more advanced lithography process.

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100, on the other hand, has 76.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9600M GT and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100

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