NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce 315M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

NVIDIA GeForce 315M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 960M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

624 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 315M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M +3758%

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce 315M

0.039 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

GeForce 315M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

-

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

640

Shading Units

16

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.424 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.848 GTexel/s

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.78 GFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

14W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GT218

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N11M-GE

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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