Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Rage 9 (2003−2006)	Gen. 3 (2005)
GPU code name	M12	GMA 950
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 June 2004 (20 years ago)	1 March 2005 (19 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 cores	6	4
Core clock speed	250 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	210 MHz	250 MHz
Number of transistors	76 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	7 Watt
Texture fill rate	1.000	no data
ROPs	4	no data
TMUs	4	no data

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).

Laptop size	medium sized	no data
Interface	AGP 4x	no data

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 type	DDR	no data
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	no data
Memory bus width	64 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	243 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	3.888 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors

No outputs

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	9.0	no data
OpenGL	2.0	no data
OpenCL	N/A	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency

1 June 2004

1 March 2005

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