NVIDIA GeForce 310M vs NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 310M and NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM 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 7 month(s) later
  • 2.8x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • Around 14% higher texture fill rate: 5 GTexel / s vs 4.4 GTexel / s
  • Around 13% better floating-point performance: 48.96 gflops vs 43.2 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 31 Watt
  • Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 116 vs 113
  • Around 20% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2949 vs 2451
  • Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1167 vs 866
  • Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1167 vs 866
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 January 2010 vs 26 May 2009
Core clock speed 1530 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s vs 4.4 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 48.96 gflops vs 43.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 31 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 116 vs 113
Geekbench - OpenCL 2949 vs 2451
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1167 vs 866
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1167 vs 866

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM

  • Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 35 vs 22
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 35 vs 22

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 310M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
116
113
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
22
35
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
2949
2451
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1167
866
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1167
866
Name NVIDIA GeForce 310M NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 116 113
PassMark - G2D Mark 22 35
Geekbench - OpenCL 2949 2451
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1167 866
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1167 866

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 310M NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 Tesla
Code name GT218 G96C
Launch date 10 January 2010 26 May 2009
Place in performance rating 1671 1672
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1530 MHz 550 MHz
CUDA cores 16
Floating-point performance 48.96 gflops 43.2 gflops
Gigaflops 73
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 16 16
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s 4.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt 31 Watt
Transistor count 260 million 314 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA
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 168 mm

API support

DirectX 10.1 10.0
OpenGL 3.3 3.3

Memory

Memory bandwidth 12.64 GB / s 8.06 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory type GDDR3, DDR3 DDR2
Shared memory 0
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1008 MHz

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0