NVIDIA started NVS 315 sales 10 March 2013 at a recommended price of $159 . This is a Fermi 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 14 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 145 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 19 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about NVS 315: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	1088
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.02
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GF119
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	10 March 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$159
Current price	$213 (1.3x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

NVS 315's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of NVS 315's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	48	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	523 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	292 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	19 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	4.184	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	100.4 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of NVS 315 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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on NVS 315: 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 type	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	14 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on NVS 315. 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 Connectors

1x DMS-59

API compatibility

APIs supported by NVS 315, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	2.1

Benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance 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.

NVS 315 0.90

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

NVS 315 346

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

NVS 315 883

Gaming performance

Let's see how good NVS 315 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.