NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M vs Intel GMA 3000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M and Intel GMA 3000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

Intel GMA 3000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
3.6x more core clock speed: 1436 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 1 July 2006
Core clock speed	1436 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm

Reasons to consider the Intel GMA 3000

2.9x lower typical power consumption: 13 Watt vs 38 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt vs 38 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M
GPU 2: Intel GMA 3000

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M	Intel GMA 3000
PassMark - G3D Mark	645
PassMark - G2D Mark	53
Geekbench - OpenCL	11217
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3329
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3329

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M	Intel GMA 3000
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Generation 3.5
Code name	GT215	Lakeport
Launch date	7 January 2010	1 July 2006
Place in performance rating	1372	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1436 MHz	400 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	275.71 gflops
Gigaflops	413
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	17.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	38 Watt	13 Watt
Transistor count	727 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Single Link DVILVDSHDMIDual Link DVIDisplayPortVGA	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
MXM Type	MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management	8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI