NVIDIA GeForce 310M vs NVIDIA ION 2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 310M and NVIDIA ION 2 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
  • 3.1x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 20 Watt
  • Around 26% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1167 vs 928
  • Around 26% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1167 vs 928
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 January 2010 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed 1530 MHz vs 500 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 20 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1167 vs 928
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1167 vs 928

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 310M
GPU 2: NVIDIA ION 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1167
928
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1167
928
Name NVIDIA GeForce 310M NVIDIA ION 2
PassMark - G3D Mark 119
PassMark - G2D Mark 22
Geekbench - OpenCL 2949
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1167 928
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1167 928

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 310M NVIDIA ION 2

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 Tesla 2.0
Code name GT218 GT218
Launch date 10 January 2010 3 June 2008
Place in performance rating 1671 1669
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1530 MHz 500 MHz
CUDA cores 16
Floating-point performance 48.96 gflops
Gigaflops 73
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 16 16
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 260 million 260 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.1 10.1
OpenGL 3.3 3.3

Memory

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

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0