NVIDIA GeForce 310M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 310M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 310M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 310M

2.1x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 720 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 15 Watt

Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 720 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 15 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145

Around 15% higher texture fill rate: 5.76 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
5x more pipelines: 80 vs 16
2.4x better floating-point performance: 115.2 gflops vs 48.96 gflops
Around 37% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1595 vs 1167
Around 37% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1595 vs 1167

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	5.76 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	80 vs 16
Floating-point performance	115.2 gflops vs 48.96 gflops
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1595 vs 1167
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1595 vs 1167

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 310M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1167

1595

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1167

1595

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145
PassMark - G3D Mark	121
PassMark - G2D Mark	22
Geekbench - OpenCL	2949
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1167	1595
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1167	1595

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GT218	M92
Launch date	10 January 2010	7 January 2010
Place in performance rating	1673	1562
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1530 MHz	720 MHz
CUDA cores	16
Floating-point performance	48.96 gflops	115.2 gflops
Gigaflops	73
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	16	80
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	5.76 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	242 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	DDR3, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0