Riva TNT 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)Fahrenheit (1998−2000)
GPU code nameGMA HDNV4
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 January 2010 (14 years ago)23 March 1998 (26 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 MHz90 MHz
Number of transistorsno data7 million
Manufacturing process technology45 nm350 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data0.18
ROPsno data2
TMUsno data2

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 dataAGP 2x
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 dataSDR
Maximum RAM amountno data16 MB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data110 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.76 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 VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX105.0
OpenGLno data1.2
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2010 23 March 1998
Chip lithography 45 nm 350 nm

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 677.8% more advanced lithography process.

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

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics is a notebook card while Riva TNT is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics
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NVIDIA Riva TNT
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