Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce 305M

Place in the ranking	1258	200
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	54.31
Architecture	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	GT218	AD107
Market segment	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Release date	10 January 2010 (14 years ago)	26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	2048
Core clock speed	525 MHz	1485 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2025 MHz
Number of transistors	260 million	18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.200	129.6
Floating-point processing power	0.0368 TFLOPS	8.294 TFLOPS
Gigaflops	55	no data
ROPs	4	32
TMUs	8	64
Tensor Cores	no data	64
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	16

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).

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8

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	GDDR3	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	Up to 512 MB	4 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	Up to 700 (DDR3), Up to 700 (GDDR3) MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB/s	128.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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	DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI	Portable Device Dependent
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	+	-
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management

8.0

no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	4.1	6.8
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	+	8.9

Gaming performance

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

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

2−3
−6400%

130−140

+6400%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 −6567%	200−210 +6567%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −6400%	130−140 +6400%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −6400%	130−140 +6400%
Hitman 3	4−5 −6650%	270−280 +6650%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 −6775%	550−600 +6775%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5 −6650%	270−280 +6650%
Watch Dogs: Legion	27−30 −6864%	1950−2000 +6864%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 −6567%	200−210 +6567%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −6400%	130−140 +6400%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −6400%	130−140 +6400%
Hitman 3	4−5 −6650%	270−280 +6650%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 −6775%	550−600 +6775%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5 −6650%	270−280 +6650%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	9−10 −6567%	600−650 +6567%
Watch Dogs: Legion	27−30 −6864%	1950−2000 +6864%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 −6567%	200−210 +6567%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −6400%	130−140 +6400%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −6400%	130−140 +6400%
Hitman 3	4−5 −6650%	270−280 +6650%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 −6775%	550−600 +6775%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5 −6650%	270−280 +6650%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	9−10 −6567%	600−650 +6567%
Watch Dogs: Legion	27−30 −6864%	1950−2000 +6864%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	0−1	0−1
Hitman 3	6−7 −6567%	400−450 +6567%
Horizon Zero Dawn	2−3 −6400%	130−140 +6400%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

2−3
−6400%

130−140

+6400%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2 −6400%	65−70 +6400%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

2−3
−6400%

130−140

+6400%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.39	27.27
Recency	10 January 2010	26 February 2024
Chip lithography	40 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	35 Watt

GeForce 305M has 150% lower power consumption.

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has a 6892.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 14 years, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 305M in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce 305M is a notebook graphics card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.