Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650 vs HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1189not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2012)PowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)
GPU code nameIvy Bridge GT1Cedar Trail
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 October 2012 (12 years ago)1 November 2011 (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 cores64
Core clock speed350 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1100 MHz640 MHz
Manufacturing process technology22 nm32 nm

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 bus width64/128 Bitno data
Shared memory++

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.0no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2012 1 November 2011
Chip lithography 22 nm 32 nm

HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) has an age advantage of 11 months, and a 45.5% more advanced lithography process.

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Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge)
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