NVIDIA GeForce 310M vs NVIDIA GeForce G 103M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 310M and NVIDIA GeForce G 103M 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 G 103M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 310M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 640 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 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1167 vs 934
Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1167 vs 934

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 January 2010 vs 1 September 2009
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 640 MHz
Pipelines	16 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1167 vs 934
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1167 vs 934

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 310M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce G 103M

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1167

934

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1167

934

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	NVIDIA GeForce G 103M
PassMark - G3D Mark	121
PassMark - G2D Mark	22
Geekbench - OpenCL	2949
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1167	934
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1167	934

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	NVIDIA GeForce G 103M
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	G9x
Code name	GT218	G98
Launch date	10 January 2010	1 September 2009
Place in performance rating	1673	1663
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1530 MHz	640 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	10.0
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0	0
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory clock speed		500 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0