GeForce 315M: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce 315M provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.30% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 315M sales 5 January 2011. This is a Tesla 2.0 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. Up to 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 12.8 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 315M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1329
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency1.47of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGT218
Market segmentLaptop
Release date5 January 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 315M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 315M'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 speed606 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
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 rate4.848of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.03878 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Gigaflops73
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 315M 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 315M: 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 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 315M. 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 315M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce 315M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.1
OpenGL4.1of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 315M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GeForce 315M 0.30

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 315M 115

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

GeForce 315M 1109

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 315M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 2−3

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 0−1
Hitman 3 6−7
Horizon Zero Dawn 2−3

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3

Closest competitors

GeForce 315M's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 315M is Radeon HD 7290, which is slower by 3% and lower by 10 positions in our ranking.

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