GeForce 315M and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 315M vs Radeon 8500
GeForce 315M
118
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce 315M
Radeon 8500
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
N11M-GE
R200
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
August 2001
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
606 MHz
275 MHz
CUDA cores
16
-
Floating-point performance
38.78 gflops
-
Gigaflops
73
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
260 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
14 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.848
2.200
Memory type
GDDR3, DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 512 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
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)
8.1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.1
1.4
Shader Model
4.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-