Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs GeForce 310M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GT2xx (2009−2012)	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name	N11M-GE1	Tahiti
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	10 January 2010 (14 years ago)	31 January 2012 (12 years ago)
Current price	$163	no data

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	16	1536
CUDA cores	16	no data
Core clock speed	606 / 625 MHz	925 MHz
Number of transistors	260 million	4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	185 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.848	88.80
Floating-point performance	48.96 gflops	2,842 gflops
Gigaflops	73	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce 310M and Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	no data	267 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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, DDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	Up to 1 GB	3 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz	5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	10.67 GB/s	240.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

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	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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 graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	4.1	5.1
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	+	no data

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	10 January 2010	31 January 2012
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	185 Watt

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