HD Graphics 3000 and GMA 900 - video card comparison
HD Graphics 3000
GMA 900
Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
Generation 3.0 (2005)
GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
Grantsdale
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
February 2011
June 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Boost clock speed
1350 MHz
-
Core clock speed
350 MHz
333 MHz
Floating-point performance
20.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
995 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
12
-
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
-
Texture fill rate
13.80
1.332
Memory type
System Shared
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
System Shared
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
System Shared
System Shared
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
9.0c
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
3.1
1.4
Shader Model
4.1
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A