NVIDIA GeForce 310M vs ATI Radeon VE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 310M and ATI Radeon VE 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 Radeon VE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 310M

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 10 month(s) later
8.4x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 183 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 180 nm
Around 64% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 23 Watt
60.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 121 vs 2

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 January 2010 vs 19 February 2001
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 180 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 23 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	121 vs 2

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon VE

109.8x more texture fill rate: 549 MTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Around 64% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 36 vs 22

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	549 MTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	36 vs 22

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 310M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon VE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

121

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	ATI Radeon VE
PassMark - G3D Mark	121	2
PassMark - G2D Mark	22	36
Geekbench - OpenCL	2949
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1167
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1167

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	ATI Radeon VE
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Rage 6
Code name	GT218	Rage 6
Launch date	10 January 2010	19 February 2001
Place in performance rating	1673	1659
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1530 MHz	183 MHz
CUDA cores	16
Floating-point performance	48.96 gflops
Gigaflops	73
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	549 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	30 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	7.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.3
Memory
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s	2.928 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		32 MB
Memory clock speed		366 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0