Tegra 3: specs and benchmarks
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 ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | VLIW Vec4 (2010−2013) | |
| GPU code name | Tegra 3 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 9 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 speed | 416 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 520 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 10 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 20 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 4.160 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 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).
| Interface | IGP |
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 type | System Shared | |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | of 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 Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Tegra 3, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | N/A | |
| OpenGL | ES 2.0 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Tegra 3 according to our statistics.
