NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 53 vs 45
3.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 159 vs 42

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 4 October 2007
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	53 vs 45
PassMark - G3D Mark	159 vs 42

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i

Around 2% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 589 MHz

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 589 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

159

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i
PassMark - G2D Mark	53	45
PassMark - G3D Mark	159	42
Geekbench - OpenCL	4683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1062
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1062

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Curie
Code name	GT218	C73
Launch date	22 February 2011	4 October 2007
Place in performance rating	1615	1618
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	589 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	105.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	7.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz
Memory type	DDR3