GMA X3000 vs Radeon Sky 500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking401not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.67no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code namePitcairnBroadwater
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date27 March 2013 (11 years ago)1 June 2006 (18 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 cores1280no data
Core clock speed950 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate76.004.000
Floating-point processing power2.432 TFLOPSno data
ROPs321
TMUs808

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 supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length242 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Form factorfull height / full lengthno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1200 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth154 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DisplayPortNo outputs
DisplayPort count1no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

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 27 March 2013 1 June 2006
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 13 Watt

Sky 500 has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

GMA X3000, on the other hand, has 1053.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Sky 500 and GMA X3000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Sky 500 is a workstation card while GMA X3000 is a notebook one.


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