Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 vs Radeon HD 6550D

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1099not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.10no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)PowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)
GPU code nameSumoCedar Trail
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date20 June 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 cores4004
Core clock speed600 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data400 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology32 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattno data
Texture fill rate12.00no data
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs20no 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).

InterfaceIGPno data
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem Sharedno data
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedno data
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedno data
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)no data
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

HD 6550D 3930
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Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 June 2011 1 November 2011

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 has an age advantage of 4 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6550D and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6550D is a desktop card while Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 is a notebook one.


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