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GeForce GT 310 vs GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)

Intro

The GeForce GT 310 makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 589 MHz. The DDR2 memory works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 16 SPUs along with 8 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM), which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 650 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 850 MHz on this particular model. It features 336 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 310 31 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 150 Watts
Difference: 119 Watts (384%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 310 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 108800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 310 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 92800 (580%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) is a lot (approximately 672%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 310. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 36400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 310 4712 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 31688 (672%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) is superior to the GeForce GT 310, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 20800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 310 2356 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 18444 (783%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 310 GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year November 2009 October 2010
Code Name GT218 GF104
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 589 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 3400 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 31 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 108800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 4712 Mtexels/sec 36400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2356 Mpixels/sec 20800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 16 336
Texture Mapping Units 8 56
Render Output Units 4 32
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 260 million 1950 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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