GeForce 310 OEM vs Radeon Sky 700

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameTahitiGT218
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date27 March 2013 (11 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 cores179216
Core clock speed900 MHz589 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt31 Watt
Texture fill rate100.84.712
Floating-point processing power3.226 TFLOPS0.04486 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs1128

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mm168 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Form factorfull height / full lengthno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount6 GB512 MB
Memory bus width384 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz333 MHz
Memory bandwidth176 GB/s5.328 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA
DisplayPort count1no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 March 2013 27 November 2009
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 31 Watt

Sky 700 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

310 OEM, on the other hand, has 625.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Sky 700 and GeForce 310 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Sky 700 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce 310 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon Sky 700
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