Integrated Intel Chipset Overview
The following table shows all integrated graphics units of Intel chipsets with support for PCI Express:
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| Graphics core | GMA 900 | GMA 950 | GMA 3000 | GMA 3100 | GMA X3000 | GMA X3100 | GMA X3500 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chipset | 910GL, 915G, 915GL, 915GV | 915GM | 945GU | 945GM | 945G, 945GZ | 946GZ | Q963 | Q965 | G31, Q33, Q35 | G33 | G965 | GM965, GL960 | G35 |
| Clock speed (MHz) | 333 MHz | 200 MHz | 133 MHz | 250 MHz | 400 MHz | 667 MHz/400 MHz | 667 MHz | 667 MHz | 400 MHz | 400 MHz | 667 MHz | 667 MHz | 667 MHz |
| Vertex shader model | 2.5 | 3.0 | 4.0 | ||||||||||
| Pixel shader model | 2.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | ||||||||||
| Pixel Pipelines | 4 | N/A | |||||||||||
| Unified shader processors | N/A | 8 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Hardware vertex shaders | No | Yes | |||||||||||
| Peak memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 8.5 GB/s | 10.7 GB/s | 12.8 GB/s | Row 7 - Cell 4 | 17.1 GB/s with DDR3 (12.8 GB/s with DDR2) | 12.8 GB/s | Row 7 - Cell 7 | ||||||
| Max video memory (MB) | 128 MB | 192 MB/256 MB | 256 MB | 384 MB | |||||||||
| OpenGL support | 1.4 | 1.5 | 2 | ||||||||||
| DirectX API support | 9 | 10 [13] | |||||||||||
| MPEG-2 Hardware Acceleration | motion compensation | VLD + iDCT + MC | |||||||||||
| VC-1 Hardware Acceleration | No | MC (for WMV9 only) | MC + In loop filter |
Table Source: Wikipedia
Since the G33 chipset is DirectX9.0c compliant, it is perfectly capable of running Windows Vista's pimped and accelerated Aeroglass 3D desktop.
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