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).

 

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 75% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 119 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 119 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
119
68
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
22
47
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 119 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