NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs NVIDIA GeForce 315M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

NVIDIA GeForce 315M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 315M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 315M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460M +1228%

0.518 TFLOPS

GeForce 315M

0.039 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

VS

GeForce 315M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

625 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

60.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

2

192

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

24

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.424 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.848 GTexel/s

-

518.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.78 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

14W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

GT218

N11E-GS-A1

GPU Variant

N11M-GE

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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