GeForce 315M and Radeon HD 3730 - video card comparison
GeForce 315M
Radeon HD 3730
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
N11M-GE
RV635
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
October 2008
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
606 MHz
722 MHz
CUDA cores
16
-
Floating-point performance
38.78 gflops
173.28 gflops
Gigaflops
73
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
260 million
378 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
120
Power consumption (TDP)
14 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.848
5.776
Memory type
GDDR3, DDR3
DDR2
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
792 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
12.67 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)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-