NVIDIA GeForce 310M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 310M and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS 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

NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 310M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
3.4x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.8x more texture fill rate: 5 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
Around 64% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 23 Watt
Around 51% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 119 vs 79
4.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1167 vs 277
4.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1167 vs 277

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 January 2010 vs 18 January 2006
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 23 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	119 vs 79
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1167 vs 277
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1167 vs 277

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 47 vs 22

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	47 vs 22

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 310M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

119

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1167

277

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1167

277

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	119	79
PassMark - G2D Mark	22	47
Geekbench - OpenCL	2949
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1167	277
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1167	277

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Curie
Code name	GT218	G72
Launch date	10 January 2010	18 January 2006
Place in performance rating	1672	1675
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1530 MHz	450 MHz
CUDA cores	16
Floating-point performance	48.96 gflops
Gigaflops	73
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	112 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	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0