GeForce 310 OEM vs 8800M GTS

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1105not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.38no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameG92GT218
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 November 2007 (17 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 cores6416
Core clock speed500 MHz589 MHz
Number of transistors754 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt31 Watt
Texture fill rate16.004.712
Floating-point processing power0.16 TFLOPS0.04486 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs328

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-HEPCIe 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 typeGDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz333 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s5.328 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_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.04.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.11.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2007 27 November 2009
Chip lithography 65 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 31 Watt

310 OEM has an age advantage of 2 years, a 62.5% more advanced lithography process, and 61.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8800M GTS and GeForce 310 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 8800M GTS is a notebook card while GeForce 310 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS
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