NVIDIA GeForce 310M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 310M

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 310M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 310M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 310M

0.049 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +3269%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce 310M

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 300M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

667 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

10.67GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

768

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.424 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

4.848 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

48.96 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

14W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Saturn

N11M-GE1

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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