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).

NVIDIA GeForce 310M

NVIDIA ION 2

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	116
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