NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI vs NVIDIA GeForce 315M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI and NVIDIA GeForce 315M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, 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 GTX 560M SLI

NVIDIA GeForce 315M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI

24x more pipelines: 384 vs 16

Pipelines	384 vs 16

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 315M

Around 56% higher core clock speed: 1212 MHz vs 775 MHz
7.1x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 100 Watt

Core clock speed	1212 MHz vs 775 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 315M

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI	NVIDIA GeForce 315M
PassMark - G3D Mark		115
PassMark - G2D Mark		36
Geekbench - OpenCL		2910
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1401
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1401

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI	NVIDIA GeForce 315M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla 2.0
Code name	N12E-GS	GT218
Launch date	6 January 2011	5 January 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	1641
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	1212 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	16
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	14 Watt
CUDA cores		16
Floating-point performance		38.78 gflops
Gigaflops		73
Texture fill rate		4.85 GTexel / s
Transistor count		260 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	large
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	11	10.1
OpenGL		4.1
Memory
Memory bus width	192 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3, DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Memory bandwidth		12.8 GB / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management		8.0