XGI Volari 8300 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)XG4 (2003−2005)
GPU code nameGMA 500XG47
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 November 2008 (15 years ago)1 November 2005 (18 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4no data
Core clock speed200 MHz300 MHz
Number of transistorsno data90 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm130 nm
Texture fill rateno data2.400

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

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 dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data128 MB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data4.8 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 graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.19.0c
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2008 1 November 2005

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 has an age advantage of 3 years.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 and XGI Volari 8300. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 is a notebook card while XGI Volari 8300 is a desktop one.


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