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GeForce GTX 960 and GeForce 310M - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce 310M

GeForce GTX 960
6254
GeForce 310M
118

GeForce GTX 960

GeForce 310M


Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GT2xx (2009−2012)

GPU code name
GM206
N11M-GE1

Market segment
Desktop
Laptop

Release date
January 2015
January 2010

Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCI-E 2.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-

Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
None

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-

Core clock speed
1127 MHz
606 / 625 MHz

CUDA cores
1024
16

Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
48.96 gflops

Gigaflops
-
73

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm

Number of transistors
2,940 million
260 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
16

Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
14 Watt

Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
4.848

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3, DDR3

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
Up to 1 GB

Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit

Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz

Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
10.67 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI

Multi monitor support
4 displays
+

HDMI
+
+

HDCP
+
-

Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536

G-SYNC support
+
-

Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-

DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.1 (10_1)

CUDA
+
+

OpenCL
1.2
1.1

OpenGL
4.4
3.3

Shader Model
6.4
4.1

Vulkan
+
N/A

GameStream
+
-

GameWorks
+
-

GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-

GPU Boost
2.0
-

Power management
-
8.0