GMA 3600 vs NVS 300

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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
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)PowerVR SGX545 (2008−2010)
GPU code nameGT218Cedarview
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date8 January 2011 (13 years ago)1 October 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$109 no data

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 cores1632
Core clock speed520 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors260 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate4.1601.600
Floating-point processing power0.03936 TFLOPS0.0256 TFLOPS
ROPs41
TMUs84

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCI
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed790 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth12.64 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DMS-59No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)10.1
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.3ES 2.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2011 1 October 2008
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 13 Watt

NVS 300 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

GMA 3600, on the other hand, has 38.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between NVS 300 and GMA 3600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that NVS 300 is a workstation graphics card while GMA 3600 is a desktop one.


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