GMA 3600 vs Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking984not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.25no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)PowerVR SGX545 (2008−2010)
GPU code nameStoney RidgeCedarview
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)1 October 2008 (16 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 cores19232
Core clock speedno data400 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-45 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1.600
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0256 TFLOPS
ROPsno data1
TMUsno data4

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
Interfaceno dataPCI

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 typeno dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)10.1
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno dataES 2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 1 October 2008
Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 13 Watt

R5 (Stoney Ridge) has an age advantage of 7 years, a 132.1% more advanced lithography process, and 8.3% lower power consumption.

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AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)
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