GeForce 310M and Radeon HD 8550 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 310M
Radeon HD 8550 OEM
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N11M-GE1
Turks
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2010
October 2013
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
606 / 625 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
16
-
Floating-point performance
48.96 gflops
624.0 gflops
Gigaflops
73
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
260 million
716 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
480
Power consumption (TDP)
14 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.848
15.60
Memory type
GDDR3, DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-