NVS 310 vs ATI FirePro V3700

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1190
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.03
Power efficiencyno data2.23
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameRV620GF119
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date8 August 2008 (16 years ago)26 June 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$99 $159

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4048
Core clock speed800 MHz523 MHz
Number of transistors181 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)32 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate3.2004.184
Floating-point processing power0.064 TFLOPS0.1004 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mm156 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed950 MHz875 MHz
Memory bandwidth15.2 GB/s14 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI2x DisplayPort

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 August 2008 26 June 2012
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 32 Watt 20 Watt

NVS 310 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 37.5% more advanced lithography process, and 60% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V3700 and NVS 310. We've got no test results to judge.


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