NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE vs Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE

  • 16x more pipelines: 32 vs 2
Pipelines 32 vs 2

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

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 45 nm vs 65 nm
Manufacturing process technology 45 nm vs 65 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE
GPU 2: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150

Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150
PassMark - G3D Mark 3
PassMark - G2D Mark 86

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150

Essentials

Architecture Tesla
Code name G96 Pineview
Launch date 15 January 2010 10 January 2010
Place in performance rating not rated 1450
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 45 nm
Pipelines 32 2
Texture fill rate 9.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt
Transistor count 314 million 123 Million
Boost clock speed 200 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16

API support

DirectX 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz
Memory type DDR2
Shared memory yes