Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150 vs NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Comparative analysis of Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150 and NVIDIA GeForce 305M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150

NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M

8x more pipelines: 16 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 45 nm
50.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 151 vs 3
Around 73% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 149 vs 86

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	16 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 45 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	151 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	149 vs 86

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 305M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

151

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

149

Name	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150	NVIDIA GeForce 305M
PassMark - G3D Mark	3	151
PassMark - G2D Mark	86	149
Geekbench - OpenCL		1987

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150	NVIDIA GeForce 305M
Essentials
Code name	Pineview	GT218
Launch date	10 January 2010	10 January 2010
Place in performance rating	1472	1356
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Architecture		Tesla 2.0
Technical info
Boost clock speed	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	45 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	2	16
Transistor count	123 Million	260 million
Core clock speed		1150 MHz
CUDA cores		16
Floating-point performance		36.8 gflops
Gigaflops		55
Texture fill rate		4.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		14 Watt
Memory
Shared memory	yes	0
Memory bandwidth		11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory type		GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX		10.1
OpenGL		2.1
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management		8.0