Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Comparative analysis of Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 130 nm

Launch date	1 November 2011 vs 1 April 2004
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 130 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Name	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
PassMark - G2D Mark		78
PassMark - G3D Mark		101

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
Essentials
Architecture	PowerVR SGX5	Curie
Code name	Cedar Trail	NV40 A1
Launch date	1 November 2011	1 April 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	1496
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,199
Technical info
Boost clock speed	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	4
Core clock speed		375 MHz
Texture fill rate		4.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		142 Watt
Transistor count		222 million
Memory
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		2x Molex
API support
DirectX		9.0c
OpenGL		2.1