Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 vs Radeon HD 8610G

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1085not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 3 (2010−2013)PowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)
GPU code nameRichlandCedar Trail
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date23 May 2013 (11 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 cores3844
Core clock speed533 MHzno data
Boost clock speed626 MHz400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology32 nm32 nm

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

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.

Shared memory++

API compatibility

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

DirectX11no data

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3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution.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 8610G 2203
+220200%
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 May 2013 1 November 2011

HD 8610G has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8610G and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 8610G
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