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HD Graphics 3000 vs GMA 500

We compared two Integrated graphics card GPUs: 0System Shared VRAM HD Graphics 3000 and 0System Shared VRAM GMA 500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

HD Graphics 3000 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1300MHz
64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
HD Graphics 3000 +1975%
249
GMA 500
12

Graphics Card

Feb 2011
Release Date
Mar 2008
HD Graphics-M
Generation
GMA Graphics-T
Integrated
Type
Integrated
Ring Bus
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

650 MHz
Base Clock
-
1300 MHz
Boost Clock
-
System Shared
Memory Clock
System Shared

Memory

System Shared
Memory Size
System Shared
System Shared
Memory Type
System Shared
System Shared
Memory Bus
System Shared
System Dependent
Bandwidth
System Dependent

Render Config

96
Shading Units
32
12
TMUs
4
2
ROPs
1

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
200.0 MPixel/s
15.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
800.0 MTexel/s
249.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown
TDP
Unknown
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent

Graphics Processor

Sandy Bridge GT2+
GPU Name
Poulsbo
Generation 6.0
Architecture
PowerVR SGX535
Intel
Foundry
Intel
32 nm
Process Size
130 nm
1.16 billion
Transistors
Unknown
216 mm²
Die Size
Unknown

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
10.1
3.1
OpenGL
ES 2.0
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
4.1
Shader Model
4.1
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