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

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1296not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)PowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)
GPU code nameSandy BridgeCedar Trail
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 May 2011 (13 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 technology32 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.

DirectX10.1no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2011 1 November 2011

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650 has an age advantage of 6 months.

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