Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900

The Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 (also known as GMA 900) is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on the Mobile Intel 915GM chipset for Intel processors. It does not support hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) calculations (which is required for some games).

It supports DirectX 9.0 with Shader Model 2.0 (Vertex Shader are calculated in Software - by the CPU) and OpenGL 1.4. Furthermore, the chip is able to accelerate the decoding of MPEG2 videos and supports Motion Compensation.

The GMA 900 can not be described as a graphics card that is sufficient for gamers. Still Intel published a list of games that will run (not needingly beautiful) on the notebook. Some old 3D games and especially 2D games should run without problems. The advantage of integrated graphics cards, is that they have a low power consumtion and therefore save battery life. Furthermore, the laptop may stay cooler and more silent than laptops with dedicated graphics cards. For office programs and surfing the performance is more than sufficient.

Currently there are no drivers that support Aero Glass for Windows Vista.

Manufacturer

Intel

GMA Series

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4700MHD	10 @ 640 MHz
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD	10 @ 533 MHz
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M	10 @ 400 MHz
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100	8 @ 500 MHz
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950	4/0 cores @ 250 MHz
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900	4/0 cores @ 400 MHz
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600	4 @ 400 MHz
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500	4 @ 200 MHz

Codename

GMA 900

Pipelines

4 / 0 Pixel- / Vertexshader

Core Speed *

400 MHz

Memory Type

mit Hauptspeicher geteilt (shared)

Shared Memory

no
shared Memory

DirectX

DirectX 9c, Shader 2.0

technology

130 nm

Features

No Hardware Transform and Lightning Support (T&L), MPEG2 acceleration, Motion Compensation

Date of Announcement

01.03.2005

Link to Manufacturer Page

http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/g...

* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

Benchmarks

3DMark 06 +

3DMark 05 - Standard 1024x768

100%

min: 200 avg: 234 (1%) median: 223 (0%) max: 279 Points

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Intel Extreme Graphics 2

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Intel Extreme Graphics 2

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 -43%

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600 11%

VIA Chrome9 HC 18%

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150 26%

SIS Mirage 3+ 672MX 34%

SIS Mirage 3 671MX 42%

ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 57%

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 74%

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5700 114%

ATI Mobility FireGL V3100 148%

...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop) 19869%

100%

3DMark 03 - Standard 1024x768

100%

min: 289 avg: 736 (0%) median: 877.5 (0%) max: 900 Points

+ 4 benchmarks and specifications + Show comparison chart

3DMark 2001SE - Standard 1024x768

100%

min: 1726 avg: 3330 (3%) median: 4000 (4%) max: 4264 Points

+ 3 benchmarks and specifications + Show comparison chart

Cinebench R10 Shading 32Bit +

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card

- Average benchmark values for this graphics card

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

Model	CPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value

Vaio VGN-FS485B	740	512 MB			54
					60

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900

Benchmarks

Game Benchmarks

Doom 3

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo

Notebook reviews with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 graphics card