GeForce 3 Go vs Radeon R6 (Carrizo)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking971not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.98no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)no data
GPU code nameCarrizono data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 June 2015 (9 years ago)1 February 2002 (22 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
Boost clock speed800 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million27 Million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt2 Watt

Form factor & compatibility

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Laptop sizemedium sizedmedium sized

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 dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data64 MB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit32 / 64 / 128 Bit
Shared memory+-

API compatibility

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DirectX12 (FL 12_0)DDR

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2015 1 February 2002
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 2 Watt

R6 (Carrizo) has an age advantage of 13 years, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

GeForce 3 Go, on the other hand, has 500% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and GeForce 3 Go. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
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NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go
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