GeForce 310 OEM vs 320M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1221not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.61no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameC89GT218
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 April 2010 (14 years ago)27 November 2009 (15 years ago)

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 cores4816
Core clock speed450 MHz589 MHz
Number of transistors486 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt31 Watt
Texture fill rate7.2004.712
Floating-point processing power0.0912 TFLOPS0.04486 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs168

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
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedDDR2
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared512 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared333 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data5.328 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2010 27 November 2009
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 31 Watt

GeForce 320M has an age advantage of 4 months, and 34.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 320M and GeForce 310 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 320M is a notebook card while GeForce 310 OEM is a desktop one.


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