GeForce 305M: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 305M sales 10 January 2010. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Tesla 2.0 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. Up to 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at Up to 700 (DDR3), Up to 700 (GDDR3) MHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 11.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 14 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 305M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGT218
Market segmentLaptop
Release date10 January 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 305M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 305M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed525 MHzof 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors260 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)14 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate4.200of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.0368 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Gigaflops55
ROPs4of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs8of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 305M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCI-E 2.0
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 305M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountUp to 512 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speedUp to 700 (DDR3), Up to 700 (GDDR3) MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth11.2 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 305M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsDisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support+
HDMI+
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce 305M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce 305M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.1
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 305M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GeForce 305M 150

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