NVS 310 vs FirePro D300

Place in performance ranking	413	1152
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	4.30	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Pitcairn	GF119
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)	26 June 2012 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$159
Current price	$260	$80 (0.5x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro D300 and NVS 310 have a nearly equal value for money.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1280	48
Core clock speed	850 MHz	523 MHz
Number of transistors	2,800 million	292 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	20 Watt
Texture fill rate	68.00	4.184
Floating-point performance	2,176 gflops	100.4 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	242 mm	156 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5080 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	162.6 GB/s	14 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort

2x DisplayPort

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	no data	2.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FirePro D300 10.06
+1472%

NVS 310 0.64

FirePro D300 outperforms NVS 310 by 1472% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

FirePro D300 19273
+2088%

NVS 310 881

FirePro D300 outperforms NVS 310 by 2088% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	10.06	0.64
Recency	18 January 2014	26 June 2012
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	20 Watt