NVIDIA GeForce 315M videocard review

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

38695

115

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1305

Geekbench
OpenCL

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

352795

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, 1024x768	73.00
Medium, 1360x768	28.40

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GT218
Launch date	5 January 2011
Place in performance rating	1635
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