Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

Comparative analysis of Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

  • Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 753 MHz vs 640 MHz
  • 36x more pipelines: 144 vs 4
Boost clock speed 753 MHz vs 640 MHz
Pipelines 144 vs 4

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

Name Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650 NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M
PassMark - G3D Mark 654
PassMark - G2D Mark 111
Geekbench - OpenCL 2860
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 7.699
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 252.895
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.727
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 12.581
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 21.909
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1134
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2265
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2827
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1134
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2265
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2827

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650 NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

Essentials

Architecture PowerVR SGX5 Fermi
Code name Cedar Trail GF106
Launch date 1 November 2011 27 October 2011
Place in performance rating not rated 1417
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 640 MHz 753 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 4 144
CUDA cores Up to 144
Floating-point performance 388.8 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million

Memory

Shared memory 1 0
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory type DDR3\DDR5

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 API
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI