NVIDIA GeForce 305M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 305M and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M

  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 28 Watt
  • Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 149 vs 113
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 28 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 149 vs 113

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

  • Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1249 MHz vs 1150 MHz
  • 3.8x more texture fill rate: 16 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
  • 6x more pipelines: 96 vs 16
  • 6.5x better floating-point performance: 240 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
  • 2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 408 vs 151
  • 4.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8210 vs 1987
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1249 MHz vs 1150 MHz
Texture fill rate 16 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 96 vs 16
Floating-point performance 240 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 408 vs 151
Geekbench - OpenCL 8210 vs 1987

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 305M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
151
408
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
149
113
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1987
8210
Name NVIDIA GeForce 305M NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M
PassMark - G3D Mark 151 408
PassMark - G2D Mark 149 113
Geekbench - OpenCL 1987 8210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3123

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 305M NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 Tesla 2.0
Code name GT218 GT215
Launch date 10 January 2010 7 January 2010
Place in performance rating 1326 1327
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1150 MHz 1249 MHz
CUDA cores 16 96
Floating-point performance 36.8 gflops 240 gflops
Gigaflops 55 360
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 16 96
Texture fill rate 4.2 GTexel / s 16 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt 28 Watt
Transistor count 260 million 727 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0 PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-II
Laptop size large
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 10.1 10.1
OpenGL 2.1 2.1

Memory

Memory bandwidth 11.2 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3 GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0 8.0
MXM 3.0 Type-B
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI