AMD Radeon HD 6250 vs Intel GMA 3100

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6250 and Intel GMA 3100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6250

Intel GMA 3100

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6250

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 63% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	31 January 2011 vs 9 May 2007
Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm

Reasons to consider the Intel GMA 3100

Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 13 Watt vs 19 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt vs 19 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6250
GPU 2: Intel GMA 3100

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6250	Intel GMA 3100
PassMark - G2D Mark	30
PassMark - G3D Mark	94
Geekbench - OpenCL	1244
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	444
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	444
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1005
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1005
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	347

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6250	Intel GMA 3100
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Generation 4.0
Code name	Cedar	Bearlake
Launch date	31 January 2011	9 May 2007
Place in performance rating	1672	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	104 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	80
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	13 Watt
Transistor count	292 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz
Shared memory	1
Technologies
DirectX 11	DirectX 11