Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150 vs ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

Comparative analysis of Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150 and ATI Mobility FireGL 7800 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 45 nm vs 150 nm
Launch date 10 January 2010 vs 29 September 2001
Manufacturing process technology 45 nm vs 150 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

  • Around 40% higher boost clock speed: 280 MHz vs 200 MHz
  • Around 67% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5 vs 3
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 280 MHz vs 200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5 vs 3

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3
5
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
86
86
Name Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150 ATI Mobility FireGL 7800
PassMark - G3D Mark 3 5
PassMark - G2D Mark 86 86

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150 ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

Essentials

Code name Pineview M7
Launch date 10 January 2010 29 September 2001
Place in performance rating 1472 1475
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Architecture Rage 7

Technical info

Boost clock speed 200 MHz 280 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 45 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 2 2
Transistor count 123 Million 60 million
Core clock speed 280 MHz
Texture fill rate 560 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 27 Watt

Memory

Shared memory yes 0
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 200 Bit
Memory clock speed 400 MHz
Memory type 64 / 128

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface AGP 4x
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 7.0
OpenGL 1.3