GMA X3100 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1001not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.46no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code nameMadisonBroadwater
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)9 May 2007 (17 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 cores400no data
Core clock speed450 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed650 MHzno data
Number of transistors627 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate9.0004.000
Floating-point processing power0.36 TFLOPSno data
ROPs81
TMUs208

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 sizemedium sizedno 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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 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.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)9.0c
Shader Model5.03.0
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 9 May 2007
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 13 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5650 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

GMA X3100, on the other hand, has 15.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5650 and GMA X3100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5650 is a notebook card while GMA X3100 is a desktop one.


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