NVIDIA GeForce 310M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 310M and NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 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 8500 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 310M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
3.3x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 459 MHz
Around 39% higher texture fill rate: 5 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
Around 67% better floating-point performance: 48.96 gflops vs 29.376 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 30 Watt
Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1167 vs 996
Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1167 vs 996

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 January 2010 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 459 MHz
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
Floating-point performance	48.96 gflops vs 29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 30 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1167 vs 996
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1167 vs 996

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 130 vs 113
Around 43% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 33 vs 23

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	130 vs 113
PassMark - G2D Mark	33 vs 23

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 310M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

113

130

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1167

996

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1167

996

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	113	130
PassMark - G2D Mark	23	33
Geekbench - OpenCL	2949
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1167	996
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1167	996

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT218	G86
Launch date	10 January 2010	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1653	1650
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$129
Technical info
Core clock speed	1530 MHz	459 MHz
CUDA cores	16
Floating-point performance	48.96 gflops	29.376 gflops
Gigaflops	73
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	16	16
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	3.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	210 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
Length		229 mm
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Standard memory config per GPU		256 MB
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0
SLI