GeForce 310M and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 310M vs Radeon 8500
GeForce 310M
118
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce 310M
Radeon 8500
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
N11M-GE1
R200
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2010
August 2001
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
606 / 625 MHz
275 MHz
CUDA cores
16
-
Floating-point performance
48.96 gflops
-
Gigaflops
73
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
260 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
14 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.848
2.200
Memory type
GDDR3, DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 1 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
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)
8.1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
1.4
Shader Model
4.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-