
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.

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 ► remove from comparison The newest drivers support Windows Vista with Aero Glass effects and according to some of our readers it should run fluently. For office programs and surfing the performance is more than sufficient.

Furthermore, the laptop may stay cooler and more silent than laptops with dedicated graphics cards. The advantage of integrated graphics cards, is that they have a low power consumtion and therefore save battery life. Some old 3D games and especially 2D games should run without problems. Still Intel published a list of games that will run (not needingly beautiful) on the notebook (list is for the GMA 900). The GMA 950 can not be described as a graphics card that is sufficient for gamers. Using the GMABooster tool, slower variants can be clocked to 400 MHz to increase the 3D performance (use at your own risk, not supported by Intel!).

It supports DirectX 9.0 with Shader Model 3.0 (Vertex Shader are calculated in Software - by the CPU) and OpenGL 1.4. Compared to the GMA 900 it now supports Shader Model 3.0 (instead of 2.0) and can decode 2 HD Streams simultaneously.

It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and does not support hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) calculations (which is required for some games). The Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (also known as Intel GMA 950) is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on the Mobile Intel 945Gx chipset for Intel processors. Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 ► remove from comparison
