NVS 310 vs FirePro V7900

Place in performance ranking	552	1148
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.24	no data
Architecture	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Cayman	GF119
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	24 May 2011 (12 years ago)	26 June 2012 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$159
Current price	$165	$80 (0.5x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro V7900 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	725 MHz	523 MHz
Number of transistors	2,640 million	292 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	151 Watt	20 Watt
Texture fill rate	58.00	4.184
Floating-point performance	1,856.0 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).

Bus support	PCIe 2.1 x16	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	279 mm	156 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Form factor	full height / full length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	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	5000 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160 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
StereoOutput3D	1	no data
DisplayPort count	4	no data
Dual-link DVI support	1	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	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 V7900 5.95
+830%

NVS 310 0.64

FirePro V7900 outperforms NVS 310 by 830% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

FirePro V7900 2304
+837%

NVS 310 246

FirePro V7900 outperforms NVS 310 by 837% in Passmark.