GeForce 315 OEM vs 8400M GT

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	no data	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name	G86M	GT216
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	9 May 2007 (17 years ago)	31 March 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	48
Core clock speed	450 MHz	475 MHz
Number of transistors	210 million	486 million
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	33 Watt
Texture fill rate	3.600	7.600
Floating-point performance	0.0288 gflops	0.1056 gflops

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).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	168 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	GDDR3 / GDDR2	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	600 MHz	1580 MHz
Memory bandwidth	19.2 GB/s	12.64 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 Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	4.0	4.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
OpenCL	1.1	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	1.1	1.2

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	9 May 2007	31 March 2010
Chip lithography	80 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	33 Watt

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