GMA X3000 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860

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
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code nameM97Broadwater
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 March 2009 (15 years ago)1 June 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 cores640no data
Core clock speed650 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors826 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data13 Watt
Texture fill rate20.804.000
Floating-point processing power0.832 TFLOPSno data
ROPs161
TMUs328

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth64 GB/sno data
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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)9.0c
Shader Model4.13.0
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 March 2009 1 June 2006
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm

ATI Mobility HD 4860 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and GMA X3000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 4860 is a notebook card while GMA X3000 is a desktop one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860
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