GeForce 315M and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 315M vs GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 315M
118
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce 315M
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N11M-GE
G86
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
April 2007
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
606 MHz
459 MHz
CUDA cores
16
-
Floating-point performance
38.78 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 512 MB
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
12.8 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
4.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-