NVIDIA GeForce 310M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 310M and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M 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 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
  • Around 68% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 116 vs 69
  • 6.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1167 vs 169
  • 6.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1167 vs 169
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 69
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1167 vs 169
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1167 vs 169

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M

  • Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 14 Watt
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 53 vs 22
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 14 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 53 vs 22

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 310M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
116
69
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
22
53
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1167
169
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1167
169
Name NVIDIA GeForce 310M NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M
PassMark - G3D Mark 116 69
PassMark - G2D Mark 22 53
Geekbench - OpenCL 2949
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1167 169
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1167 169

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 310M NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 Tesla
Code name GT218 G86
Launch date 10 January 2010 9 May 2007
Place in performance rating 1672 1675
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 9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory type GDDR3, DDR3 GDDR3, GDDR2
Shared memory 0 yes
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
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