GeForce 205 OEM vs NVS 310

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1189not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.03no data
Power efficiency2.26no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGF119GT218
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date26 June 2012 (12 years ago)26 November 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores4816
Core clock speed523 MHz589 MHz
Number of transistors292 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt31 Watt
Texture fill rate4.1844.712
Floating-point processing power0.1004 TFLOPS0.04486 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length156 mm168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed875 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth14 GB/s6.4 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 Connectors2x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.11.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 June 2012 26 November 2009
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 31 Watt

NVS 310 has an age advantage of 2 years, and 55% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between NVS 310 and GeForce 205 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that NVS 310 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce 205 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA NVS 310
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