NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GT218 G71
GPU variant GT218-300-A2 G71-N-A2
Architecture Tesla 2.0 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 90 nm
Number of transistors 260 million 278 million
Die size 57 mm² 196 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Nov 27th, 2009 May 1st, 2006
Generation GeForce 300 GeForce 7 PCIe
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 200 GeForce 6 PCIe
Successor GeForce 400 GeForce 8
Launch price 259 USD
Reviews 145 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 589 MHz 450 MHz
Shader clock 1402 MHz
Memory clock 333 MHz 666 Mbps effective 660 MHz 1320 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 5.328 GB/s 42.24 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 16
TMUs 8 20
ROPs 4 16
SM count 2
Cache L2 32 KB
Pixel shaders 20
Vertex shaders 7

Performance

Pixel rate 2.356 GPixel/s 7.200 GPixel/s
Texture rate 4.712 GTexel/s 9.000 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 44.86 GFLOPS
Vertex rate 787.5 MVertices/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches 198 mm 7.8 inches
TDP 31 W 49 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x DisplayPort1x VGA 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Board number P691 P455

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_1) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 3.3 2.1
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.2
Shader model 4.1 3.0

Other Features

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