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.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150

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	1449
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