GeForce 310M and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 310M vs GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 310M
118
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce 310M
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N11M-GE1
G86
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2010
April 2007
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
606 / 625 MHz
459 MHz
CUDA cores
16
-
Floating-point performance
48.96 gflops
29.376 gflops
Gigaflops
73
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
260 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
16
Power consumption (TDP)
14 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.848
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3, DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 1 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-