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).

 

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
22
28
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