NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

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NVIDIA GeForce 315M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 315M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 315M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock758MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 315M

0.039 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M +5125%

2.038 TFLOPS

GeForce 315M

VS

GeForce GTX 680M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 300M

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

719 MHz

-

Boost Clock

758 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

16

Shading Units

1344

8

TMUs

112

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.424 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.22 GPixel/s

4.848 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.90 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

38.78 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.038 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

84.90 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

GK104

N11M-GE

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

14W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

1.2

CUDA

3.0

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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