Tegra 3: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started Tegra 3 sales 9 November 2011. This is a laptop graphics card based on a VLIW Vec4 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.

Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card. Power consumption is at 20 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Tegra 3: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureVLIW Vec4 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameTegra 3
Market segmentLaptop
Release date9 November 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Tegra 3's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Tegra 3's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed416 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed520 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors10 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)20 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate4.160of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs8of 192 (GRID A100A)
TMUs8of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Tegra 3 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfaceIGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Tegra 3: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Shared memory+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Tegra 3. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by Tegra 3, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectXN/A
OpenGLES 2.0of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Tegra 3. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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