NVIDIA GeForce 305M vs AMD Radeon HD 6830M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 305M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6830M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 305M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 39W)

AMD Radeon HD 6830M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 305M

0.037 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6830M +2386%

0.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 305M

VS

Radeon HD 6830M

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 300M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

11.20GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

16

Shading Units

800

8

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.100 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.200 GPixel/s

4.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

36.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

920.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Granville

N11M-LP1

GPU Variant

Granville LP

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

14W

TDP

39W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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