NVIDIA GeForce 310M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 310M and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M 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 160M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 310M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 580 MHz
Around 8% higher texture fill rate: 5 GTexel / s vs 4.64 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 16 vs 8
2.1x better floating-point performance: 48.96 gflops vs 23.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 49% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1167 vs 784
Around 49% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1167 vs 784

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 January 2010 vs 15 August 2008
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 580 MHz
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s vs 4.64 GTexel / s
Pipelines	16 vs 8
Floating-point performance	48.96 gflops vs 23.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1167 vs 784
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1167 vs 784

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 14 Watt
Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 136 vs 116
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 28 vs 22

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 14 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	136 vs 116
PassMark - G2D Mark	28 vs 22

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 310M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

116

136

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1167

784

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1167

784

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M
PassMark - G3D Mark	116	136
PassMark - G2D Mark	22	28
Geekbench - OpenCL	2949
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1167	784
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1167	784

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT218	G98
Launch date	10 January 2010	15 August 2008
Place in performance rating	1671	1673
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	1530 MHz	580 MHz
CUDA cores	16
Floating-point performance	48.96 gflops	23.2 gflops
Gigaflops	73
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	16	8
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	4.64 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	12 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	MXM-I
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory clock speed		1400 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0