NVIDIA GeForce 310M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 310M and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M 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 Quadro NVS 135M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 310M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
3.8x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 56% higher texture fill rate: 5 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Around 91% better floating-point performance: 48.96 gflops vs 25.6 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 116 vs 52
3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1167 vs 392
3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1167 vs 392

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 January 2010 vs 9 May 2007
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	48.96 gflops vs 25.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	116 vs 52
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1167 vs 392
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1167 vs 392

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M

Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 14 Watt
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 51 vs 22

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 14 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	51 vs 22

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 310M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

116

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1167

392

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1167

392

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M
PassMark - G3D Mark	116	52
PassMark - G2D Mark	22	51
Geekbench - OpenCL	2949
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1167	392
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1167	392

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT218	G86
Launch date	10 January 2010	9 May 2007
Place in performance rating	1672	1669
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	1530 MHz	400 MHz
CUDA cores	16
Floating-point performance	48.96 gflops	25.6 gflops
Gigaflops	73
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	16	16
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	210 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	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s	9.5 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	GDDR3, GDDR2
Shared memory	0	yes
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory clock speed		1188 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0
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