NVIDIA GeForce3 vs Intel GMA 3000
What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce3 and Intel GMA 3000. Find out which graphics card has better performance.
Graphics Processor (GPU)
| NV20 | GPU Name | Broadwater |
| NV20 A5 | Model number | Broadwater-G (946GZ) |
| Kelvin | Architecture | Generation 4.0 |
| TSMC | Foundry | Intel |
| 150 nm | Process Size | 90 nm |
| 57 million | Transistors | unknown |
| 128 mm² | Die Size | unknown |
Graphics Card
| Feb 27th, 2001 | Release Date | Jun 1st, 2006 |
| GeForce 3 | Family | GMA Graphics (GMA 3000 IGP) |
| End-of-life | Production | End-of-life |
| AGP 4x | Bus Interface | FSB |
Memory
| 64 MB | Memory Size | System Shared |
| DDR | Memory Type | System Shared |
| 128 bit | Memory Bus | System Shared |
| 7.360 GB/s | Bandwidth | System Dependent |
Performance
| 800.0 MPixel/s | Pixel fillrate | 2.668 GPixel/s |
| 1.600 GTexel/s | Texture fillrate | 2.668 GTexel/s |
Clock Speeds
| 230 MHz 460 Mbps effective | Memory Clock | System Shared |
| 200 MHz | GPU Clock | 667 MHz |
Render Config
| 8 | TMUs | 4 |
| 4 | ROPs | 4 |
| 4 | Pixel Shaders | 4 |
| 1 | Vertex Shaders | N/A |
Board Design
| Single-slot | Slot Width | IGP |
| unknown | Thermal design power (TDP) | 13 W |
| 1x VGA 1x DB13W3 | Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
| 8.1 | DirectX | 9.0c |
| 1.5 | OpenGL | 2.0 |
| N/A | OpenCL | N/A |
| N/A | Vulkan | N/A |