GeForce 7200 GS vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1473
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameCedar TrailG72
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 November 2011 (13 years ago)18 January 2006 (18 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 cores4no data
Core clock speedno data450 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data112 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm90 nm
Texture fill rateno data1.800
ROPsno data2
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
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataDDR2
Maximum RAM amountno data128 MB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data334 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data5.344 GB/s
Shared memory+no 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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data9.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2011 18 January 2006
Chip lithography 32 nm 90 nm

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 181.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 and GeForce 7200 GS. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 is a notebook card while GeForce 7200 GS is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600
NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
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