SiS 315: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
SIS started 315 sales 11 December 2000 at a recommended price of $100. This is a desktop graphics card based on a SiS 2nd Gen architecture and made with 150 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 64 MB of SDR memory clocked at 0.17 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 2.656 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 4x interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about SiS 315: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | SiS 2nd Gen (1999−2000) | |
| GPU code name | Mirage | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 11 December 2000 (24 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $100 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
SiS 315's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of SiS 315's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 166 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 150 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 0.66 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 2 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 4 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of SiS 315 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).
| Interface | AGP 4x | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on SiS 315: 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 | SDR | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 64 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 166 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 2.656 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on SiS 315. 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 | 1x VGA |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by SiS 315, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 7.0 | |
| OpenGL | 1.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
