GeForce GT 430 OEM vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100

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. 4 (2007−2010)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameCrestlineGF108
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date9 May 2007 (17 years ago)11 October 2010 (13 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 cores896
Core clock speed500 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistorsno data585 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)13.5 Watt49 Watt
Texture fill rateno data11.20
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2688 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data16

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 2.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
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 dataDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data800 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data25.6 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 HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX1012 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 May 2007 11 October 2010
Chip lithography 90 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 13 Watt 49 Watt

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 has 276.9% lower power consumption.

GT 430 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 and GeForce GT 430 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 is a notebook card while GeForce GT 430 OEM is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM
GeForce GT 430 OEM

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