NVIDIA GeForce 315M videocard review

NVIDIA GeForce 315M

GeForce 315M videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 5 January 2011. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla 2.0 microarchitecture codenamed GT218.

Core clock speed - 1212 MHz. Texture fill rate - 4.85 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 16. Floating-point performance - 38.78 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 260 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 14 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3, DDR3. Memory bus width - 64 Bit. Memory bandwidth - 12.8 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38588
115
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
36
Geekbench
OpenCL
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
345150
2910
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225 Frames
1401 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225.000 Fps
1401.000 Fps
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 115
PassMark - G2D Mark 36
Geekbench - OpenCL 2910
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 1401 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 1401.000 Fps

Games performance

StarCraft 2 (2010)

Low, 1024x76873.00
Medium, 1360x76828.40

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0
Code name GT218
Launch date 5 January 2011
Place in performance rating 1641
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1212 MHz
CUDA cores 16
Floating-point performance 38.78 gflops
Gigaflops 73
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm
Pipelines 16
Texture fill rate 4.85 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt
Transistor count 260 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16

API support

DirectX 10.1
OpenGL 4.1

Memory

Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory type GDDR3, DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0