Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900

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	Gen. 3 (2005)	PowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)
GPU code name	GMA 900	GMA 500
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 March 2005 (19 years ago)	1 November 2008 (16 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	4	4
Core clock speed	no data	200 MHz
Boost clock speed	400 MHz	no data
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm

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

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10.1

Pros & cons summary

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Recency

1 March 2005

1 November 2008

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