Silicon Motion SM502 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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
ArchitecturePowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)no data
GPU code nameCedar Trailno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 November 2011 (13 years ago)1 January 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 cores4no data
Boost clock speed400 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology32 nmno 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.

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Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2011 1 January 2007

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 has an age advantage of 4 years.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 and Silicon Motion SM502. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600
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