NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 310 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
1648 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (31W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+8611%
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce 310 OEM
0.045 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Nov 2009
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 300
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
333 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
5.328GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
1664
Shading Units
16
104
TMUs
8
56
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.356 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.712 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.86 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
31W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GT218
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GT218-300-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
