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Intel GMA X3100

Graphics Processor
Broadwater
Pixel Shaders
8
Vertex Shaders
1
TMUs
8
ROPs
1
Memory Size
System Shared
Memory Type
System Shared
Bus Width
System Shared

Recommended Gaming Resolutions:

  • 640x480
  • 1280x720
  • 1366x768
The GMA X3100 was a mobile integrated graphics solution by Intel, launched on May 9th, 2007. Built on the 90 nm process, and based on the Broadwater graphics processor, the device supports DirectX 9.0c. Since GMA X3100 does not support DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, it might not be able to run all the latest games. It features 8 pixel shaders and 1 vertex shader 8 texture mapping units, and 1 ROP. Due to the lack of unified shaders you will not be able to run recent games at all (which require unified shader/DX10+ support). The GPU is operating at a frequency of 500 MHz.
Its power draw is rated at 13 W maximum.

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Broadwater
Architecture
Generation 4.0
Foundry
Intel
Process Size
90 nm
Transistors
unknown
Die Size
unknown

Integrated Graphics

Release Date
May 9th, 2007
Generation
GMA Graphics-M
(GMA 3100 IGP)
Production
End-of-life
Bus Interface
FSB
Reviews
3 in our database

Clock Speeds

GPU Clock
500 MHz
Memory Clock
System Shared

Memory

Memory Size
System Shared
Memory Type
System Shared
Memory Bus
System Shared
Bandwidth
System Dependent

Render Config

Pixel Shaders
8
Vertex Shaders
1
TMUs
8
ROPs
1

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
500.0 MPixel/s
Vertex Rate
125.0 MVertices/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s

Board Design

Slot Width
IGP
TDP
13 W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent

Graphics Features

DirectX
9.0c
OpenGL
2.0
OpenCL
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
Shader Model
3.0

Card Notes

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on a Mobile Intel 965GM (with 500 MHz core speed) and 960GM (400 MHz) chipset (for Merom = Core 2 architecture). It is the successor of GMA 950. Most interesting is the integration of a fully programmable pipeline. Due to the integration of DirectX9 and DirectX 10 features (with drivers later than 15.9.0.1472), HDR and Hardware Transform & Lighning (T&L) - predecessor only had Software T&L - should be ready for Windows Vista Premium (support Aero Glass fully). Respective the data, the peformance should be clearly better than GMA 950.

The 13.5 Watt current consumption is relatively low, because it includes all chipset functions (therefore, this value is not compareable to dedicated graphics cards).

Broadwater GPU Notes

G965 and Q965 Chipsets
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