GeForce 310M and Radeon X1800 XT - video card comparison

GeForce 310M

Radeon X1800 XT

Architecture

GT2xx (2009−2012)

R500 (2005−2007)

GPU code name

N11M-GE1

R520

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2010

October 2005

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

606 / 625 MHz

600 MHz

CUDA cores

16

-

Floating-point performance

48.96 gflops

-

Gigaflops

73

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

260 million

321 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

-

Power consumption (TDP)

14 Watt

113 Watt

Texture fill rate

4.848

9.600

Memory type

GDDR3, DDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

Up to 1 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz

1400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

10.67 GB/s

44.8 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

Shader Model

4.1

3.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

Power management

8.0

-