GeForce 315 OEM vs FX 5500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Rankine (2003−2005)	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name	NV34 B1	GT216
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	17 March 2004 (20 years ago)	31 March 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$36.99	no data

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	no data	48
Core clock speed	270 MHz	475 MHz
Number of transistors	45 million	486 million
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	33 Watt
Texture fill rate	1.080	7.600
Floating-point processing power	no data	0.1056 gflops
ROPs	4	8
TMUs	4	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).

Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	152 mm	168 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	DDR	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	512 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	332 MHz	1580 MHz
Memory bandwidth	5.312 GB/s	12.64 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	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	9.0a	11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	no data	4.1
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	3.3
OpenCL	N/A	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	-	1.2

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	17 March 2004	31 March 2010
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	512 MB
Chip lithography	150 nm	40 nm

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