Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
| Recommended System Requirements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Game | Intel G31 Express Chipset | Radeon X1050 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 6790% | 7640% |
| Hitman 3 | 8863% | 9968% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 6202% | 6979% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 5998% | 6749% |
| FIFA 21 | 3376% | 3804% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 9595% | 10790% |
| Far Cry 6 | 9870% | 11099% |
| Genshin Impact | 6790% | 7640% |
| Battlefield 6 | 8863% | 9968% |
| Resident Evil 8 | 6790% | 7640% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Intel G31 Express Chipset are very slightly better than the AMD Radeon X1050.
The G31 Express Chipset was released less than a year after the Radeon X1050, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.
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 Radeon X1050 has 128 MB video memory, but the G31 Express Chipset does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The Radeon X1050 has 4 Shader Processing Units but the G31 Express Chipset does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The G31 Express Chipset requires 17 Watts to run and the Radeon X1050 requires 24 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the Radeon X1050, but we do not have a recommended PSU wattage for the G31 Express Chipset. The Radeon X1050 requires 7 Watts more than the G31 Express Chipset to run. The difference is not significant enough for the Radeon X1050 to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the G31 Express Chipset.
| Core Speed | 400 MHz |  | vs | | 400 MHz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | - | vs | - | ||
| Architecture | Bearlake-B | RV370 | |||
| OC Potential | - | vs |
| Fair | |
| Driver Support | - | vs | - | ||
| Release Date | 01 Aug 2007 | | vs | 07 Dec 2006 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
| Approved | | | |||
| Comparison | |||||
| Memory | N/A | vs | | 128 MB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory Speed | - | vs | | 333 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | - | vs | | 64 Bit | |
| Memory Type | DDR3 | | vs | DDR2 | |
| Memory Bandwidth | - | vs | | 5.3GB/sec | |
| L2 Cache | - | vs | - | ||
| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
vs | |
0% |
| Comparison | |||||
| Shader Processing Units | - | vs | | 4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual Shader Performance | - | vs | | 0% | |
| Technology | - | vs | | 110nm | |
| Texture Mapping Units | - | vs | | 4 | |
| Texture Rate | - | vs | | 1.6 GTexel/s | |
| Render Output Units | - | vs | | 4 | |
| Pixel Rate | - | vs | | 1.6 GPixel/s | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | - | vs | | 2560x1600 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VGA Connections | 1 | | vs | | 1 |
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | | 1 | |
| HDMI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | 17 Watts | | vs | 24 Watts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended PSU | - | 300 Watts & 18 Amps | |||
| DirectX | 9.0c | | vs | | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shader Model | 3.0 | | vs | 2.0 | |
| Open GL | 1.5 | vs | | 2.0 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | no | no | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | no | vs | no | ||
| Dedicated | no | vs | | yes | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Recommended Processor | - | - | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended RAM | - | - | |||
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | - | - | |||
| Performance Value |  | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mini Review | Intel G31 Express Chipset comes embedded on the Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo/Pentium Dual-Core CPUS and features an Integrated GPU called Intel GMA 3100. Due to its characteristics (e.g. Shared Memory) the performance is very limited but might be enough to play today's games at low settings excluding, however, very demanding games like Metro 2033 or The Witcher II, that are unplayable, even at the lowest settings. | Radeon X1050 is an entry-level GFX based on the 110nm variant of the R300 architecture. It's based on the RV370 Core and offers 4 Pixel Shaders, 4 TMUs and 4 ROPs, on a 64-bit of standard DDR2. The central unit runs at 400MHz and the memory clock operates at up to 333MHz. Expect a TDP of up to 24 Watt. Radeon X1050 is not related to the rest of the X1000 Series GPUs due to being based on the R300 architecture and not on the R500. Its performance is relatively limited - even for DirectX 9 based games. As it's not based on a Shader-Unified architecture, both DirectX 10 & 11 games aren't supported. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | - | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||