Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650 vs Radeon R5 M230
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1087 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 (2011−2020) | PowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011) |
| GPU code name | Jet | Cedar Trail |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 7 January 2014 (10 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 cores | 320 | 4 |
| Compute units | 5 | no data |
| Core clock speed | 825 MHz | no data |
| Boost clock speed | 855 MHz | 640 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 690 million | no data |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 32 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | unknown | no data |
| Texture fill rate | 17.10 | no data |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.5472 TFLOPS | no data |
| ROPs | 8 | no data |
| TMUs | 20 | no 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).
| Bus support | PCIe 3.0 x8 | no data |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | no 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 type | DDR3 | no data |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | no data |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | no data |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | no data |
| Memory bandwidth | 16 GB/s | no 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 Connectors | No outputs | no data |
| Eyefinity | + | - |
Supported technologies
Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| AppAcceleration | + | - |
| HD3D | + | - |
| PowerTune | + | - |
| DualGraphics | + | - |
| ZeroCore | + | - |
| Switchable graphics | + | - |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | DirectX® 11 | no data |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | no data |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | no data |
| OpenCL | Not Listed | no data |
| Mantle | + | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 7 January 2014 | 1 November 2011 |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 32 nm |
R5 M230 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M230 and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650. We've got no test results to judge.
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