GeForce 315M and Riva TNT2 M64 - video card comparison

GeForce 315M

Riva TNT2 M64

Architecture

GT2xx (2009−2012)

Fahrenheit (1998−2000)

GPU code name

N11M-GE

NV5 B6

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

December 2010

October 1999

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Core clock speed

606 MHz

125 MHz

CUDA cores

16

-

Floating-point performance

38.78 gflops

-

Gigaflops

73

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

250 nm

Number of transistors

260 million

15 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

-

Power consumption (TDP)

14 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

4.848

0.25

Memory type

GDDR3, DDR3

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

Up to 512 MB

16 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz

143 MHz

Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

1.144 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI

1x VGA

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

6.0

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.1

1.2

Shader Model

4.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

Power management

8.0

-