GMA 3100 vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

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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
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code nameOlandBearlake
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 November 2013 (11 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 cores384no data
Core clock speed730 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed780 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate18.721.600
Floating-point processing power0.599 TFLOPSno data
ROPs84
TMUs244

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 3.0 x8PCIe 1.0 x16
Length168 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 amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth14.4 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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0c
Shader Model5.13.0
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2013 9 May 2007
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 13 Watt

R5 240 OEM has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

GMA 3100, on the other hand, has 284.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 240 OEM and GMA 3100. We've got no test results to judge.


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