VIA Chrome9 HC 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) | no data |
| GPU code name | GMA 900 | VN896 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 1 March 2005 (19 years ago) | 1 March 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 cores | 4 | 3 |
| Core clock speed | no data | 1 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 400 MHz | 250 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | no 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 type | no data | onboard |
| Shared memory | - | + |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | no data | onboard |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 1 March 2005 | 1 March 2007 |
VIA Chrome9 HC has an age advantage of 2 years.
We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 and VIA Chrome9 HC. We've got no test results to judge.
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