In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Intel Q43 Express Chipset are significantly better than the Intel GMA 3000.

The GMA 3000 has no core clock speed set, so any comparison between Texture and Pixel Fill Rates is not currently possible.

The Q43 Express Chipset was released over a year more recently than the GMA 3000, and so the Q43 Express Chipset is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the GMA 3000.

Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.

The GMA 3000 and the Q43 Express Chipset have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.

The GMA 3000 has 6.4 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the Q43 Express Chipset, which means that the memory performance of the GMA 3000 is marginally better than the Q43 Express Chipset.

The GMA 3000 has 8 Shader Processing Units and the Q43 Express Chipset has 0. The two GPUs are based on different architectures, but deliver an equivalent shader performance. To compare, we must continue to look at the memory bandwidth, Texture and Pixel Rates. In this case, we sadly do not have enough data in this area to complete the comparison.