GeForce 315M: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 315M sales 1 December 2010. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GT2xx architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. Up to 512 MB of GDDR3, DDR3 memory clocked at Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 14 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 315M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Architecture | GT2xx (2009−2012) | |
GPU code name | N11M-GE | |
Market segment | Laptop | |
Release date | 1 December 2010 (13 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 315M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 315M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 16 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
CUDA cores | 16 | |
Core clock speed | 606 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Number of transistors | 260 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
Power consumption (TDP) | 14 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
Texture fill rate | 4.848 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Floating-point performance | 0.03878 gflops | of 96.77 (GeForce RTX TITAN Ada) |
Gigaflops | 73 |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 315M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 315M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
Memory type | GDDR3, DDR3 | |
Maximum RAM amount | Up to 512 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory clock speed | Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Memory bandwidth | 12.8 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 315M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
Display Connectors | DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI | |
Multi monitor support | + | |
HDMI | + | |
Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 |
Supported technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce 315M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
Power management | 8.0 |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce 315M, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 11.1 (10_1) | |
Shader Model | 4.1 | |
OpenGL | 4.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
OpenCL | 1.1 | |
Vulkan | N/A | |
CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 315M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
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.
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 315M is Radeon HD 8250.
Recommended processors
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