NVIDIA GeForce 310M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 310M and NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G 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 9100M G

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 310M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
3.4x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 450 MHz
2x more pipelines: 16 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 116 vs 68
2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1167 vs 512
2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1167 vs 512

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 January 2010 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 450 MHz
Pipelines	16 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	116 vs 68
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1167 vs 512
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1167 vs 512

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G

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 9100M G

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

116

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1167

512

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1167

512

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G
PassMark - G3D Mark	116	68
PassMark - G2D Mark	22	47
Geekbench - OpenCL	2949
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1167	512
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1167	512

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GT218	MCP77MH MCP79MH
Launch date	10 January 2010	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1671	1668
Type	Laptop	Laptop
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	65 nm
Pipelines	16	8
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt
Transistor count	260 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3
Shared memory	0	yes
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0