NVIDIA NVS 315 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA NVS 315 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 315

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 21% lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 23 Watt
  • Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 300 vs 213
  • 3.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 179 vs 49
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 March 2013 vs 15 June 2009
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 23 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 300 vs 213
PassMark - G2D Mark 179 vs 49

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 1210 MHz vs 523 MHz
  • 2.1x more texture fill rate: 8.8 GTexel / s vs 4.184 GTexel / s
  • Around 16% better floating-point performance: 116.16 gflops vs 100.4 gflops
  • 7.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 6433 vs 882
  • Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1860 vs 1382
  • Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1860 vs 1382
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1210 MHz vs 523 MHz
Texture fill rate 8.8 GTexel / s vs 4.184 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 116.16 gflops vs 100.4 gflops
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 6433 vs 882
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1860 vs 1382
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1860 vs 1382

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA NVS 315
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
300
213
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
179
49
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
882
6433
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1382
1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1382
1860
Name NVIDIA NVS 315 NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M
PassMark - G3D Mark 300 213
PassMark - G2D Mark 179 49
Geekbench - OpenCL 882 6433
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 3.025
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 79.479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.217
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 4.705
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 6.573
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 465
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 942
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1382 1860
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 465
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 942
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1382 1860

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA NVS 315 NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Tesla 2.0
Code name GF119 GT216
Launch date 10 March 2013 15 June 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $159
Place in performance rating 1570 1567
Type Workstation Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 523 MHz 1210 MHz
Floating-point performance 100.4 gflops 116.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 48 48
Texture fill rate 4.184 GTexel / s 8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 486 million
CUDA cores 48
Gigaflops 174

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DMS-59 Single Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMIVGA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 145 mm
Supplementary power connectors None
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 14 GB / s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR3, GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0