GeForce 315M and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
GeForce 315M
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N11M-GE
G92
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
May 2009
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
606 MHz
580 MHz
CUDA cores
16
-
Floating-point performance
38.78 gflops
278.4 gflops
Gigaflops
73
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
260 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
96
Power consumption (TDP)
14 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.848
27.84
Memory type
GDDR3, DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 512 MB
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
12.8 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)
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
-