Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 vs Tesla M2070

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking629not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.10no data
Power efficiency1.50no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Gen. 4 (2007−2010)
GPU code nameGF100Crestline
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)9 May 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,099 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores4488
Core clock speed574 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt13.5 Watt
Texture fill rate32.14no data
Floating-point processing power1.03 TFLOPSno data
ROPs48no data
TMUs56no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Length248 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount6 GBno data
Memory bus width384 Bitno data
Memory clock speed783 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth150.3 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)10
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 9 May 2007
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 13 Watt

Tesla M2070 has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100, on the other hand, has 1630.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla M2070 and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla M2070 is a workstation card while Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 is a notebook one.


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