ATI Radeon X300 SE vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics

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
ArchitectureGen. 5 Arrandale (2010)Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameGMA HDRV370
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 January 2010 (14 years ago)1 September 2004 (20 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 cores12no data
Core clock speed500 MHz325 MHz
Number of transistorsno data107 million
Manufacturing process technology45 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1.300
ROPsno data4
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 dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data64 MB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data3.2 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX109.0
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2010 1 September 2004
Chip lithography 45 nm 110 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 30 Watt

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 144.4% more advanced lithography process.

ATI X300 SE, on the other hand, has 16.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics and Radeon X300 SE. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics is a notebook card while Radeon X300 SE is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics
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ATI Radeon X300 SE
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