NVS 3100M vs NVS 310

Place in performance ranking	1148	1182
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name	GF119	N10M-NS
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	26 June 2012 (11 years ago)	7 January 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$159	no data
Current price	$80 (0.5x MSRP)	$269

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

NVS 310 and NVS 3100M have a nearly equal value for money.

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	48	16
Core clock speed	523 MHz	600 MHz
Number of transistors	292 million	260 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	20 Watt	14 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.184	4.848
Floating-point performance	100.4 gflops	46.98 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on NVS 310 and NVS 3100M 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.

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	156 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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	DDR3	GDDR3, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	14 GB/s	12.64 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

2x DisplayPort

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	5.1	4.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
OpenCL	1.1	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	2.1	1.2

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

NVS 310 0.64
+20.8%

NVS 3100M 0.53

NVS 310 outperforms NVS 3100M by 21% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

NVS 310 246
+20.6%

NVS 3100M 204

NVS 310 outperforms NVS 3100M by 21% in Passmark.