GeForce 315M and GeForce 8600M GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 315M vs GeForce 8600M GS
GeForce 315M
118
GeForce 8600M GS
72
GeForce 315M
GeForce 8600M GS
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
N11M-GE
G84M
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
December 2010
June 2007
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Core clock speed
606 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
16
-
Floating-point performance
38.78 gflops
28.8 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
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.848
3.600
Memory type
GDDR3, DDR3
GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
No outputs
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
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-