NVIDIA NVS 4200M vs NVIDIA GeForce 315M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA NVS 4200M and NVIDIA GeForce 315M 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 4200M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
  • Around 34% higher texture fill rate: 6.48 GTexel / s vs 4.85 GTexel / s
  • 3x more pipelines: 48 vs 16
  • 4x better floating-point performance: 155.52 gflops vs 38.78 gflops
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 281 vs 115
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 77 vs 36
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1726 vs 1401
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1726 vs 1401
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 February 2011 vs 5 January 2011
Texture fill rate 6.48 GTexel / s vs 4.85 GTexel / s
Pipelines 48 vs 16
Floating-point performance 155.52 gflops vs 38.78 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 281 vs 115
PassMark - G2D Mark 77 vs 36
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1726 vs 1401
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1726 vs 1401

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 315M

  • Around 50% higher core clock speed: 1212 MHz vs 810 MHz
  • Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 25 Watt
  • 2.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2910 vs 1155
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1212 MHz vs 810 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 25 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 2910 vs 1155

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA NVS 4200M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 315M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
281
115
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
77
36
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1155
2910
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1726
1401
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1726
1401
Name NVIDIA NVS 4200M NVIDIA GeForce 315M
PassMark - G3D Mark 281 115
PassMark - G2D Mark 77 36
Geekbench - OpenCL 1155 2910
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.559
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 103.797
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 6.826
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 12.836
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1726 1401
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1726 1401

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA NVS 4200M NVIDIA GeForce 315M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Tesla 2.0
Code name GF119 GT218
Launch date 22 February 2011 5 January 2011
Place in performance rating 1640 1641
Type Mobile workstation Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 810 MHz 1212 MHz
Floating-point performance 155.52 gflops 38.78 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 48 16
Texture fill rate 6.48 GTexel / s 4.85 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt 14 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 260 million
CUDA cores 16
Gigaflops 73

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Bus support PCI-E 2.0

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3, DDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0