ATI Radeon X1900 GT vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1268
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.35
ArchitectureGen. 4 (2007−2010)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameCrestlineR580
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date9 May 2007 (17 years ago)1 May 2006 (18 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 cores8no data
Core clock speed500 MHz575 MHz
Number of transistorsno data384 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)13.5 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data6.900
ROPsno data12
TMUsno data12

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 data1x 6-pin

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 dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data38.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 data2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX109.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 May 2007 1 May 2006
Power consumption (TDP) 13 Watt 75 Watt

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 has an age advantage of 1 year, and 476.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 and Radeon X1900 GT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 is a notebook card while Radeon X1900 GT is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
ATI Radeon X1900 GT
Radeon X1900 GT

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