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GeForce 840M vs GeForce GT 310

Intro

The GeForce 840M comes with a GPU clock speed of 1029 MHz, and the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM is set to run at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce GT 310, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 589 MHz. The DDR2 RAM runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 16 SPUs along with 8 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 840M 30 Watts
GeForce GT 310 31 Watts
Difference: 1 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same memory bandwidth, so in theory they should have identical performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 840M is a lot (about 424%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 310. (explain)

GeForce 840M 24696 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 310 4712 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 19984 (424%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce 840M is superior to the GeForce GT 310, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 840M 8232 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 310 2356 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5876 (249%)

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 840M GeForce GT 310
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 12 2014 November 2009
Code Name GM108 GT218
Memory 2048 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 1029 MHz 589 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 30 watts 31 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 16000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 24696 Mtexels/sec 4712 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 8232 Mpixels/sec 2356 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 16
Texture Mapping Units 24 8
Render Output Units 8 4
Bus Type DDR3 DDR2
Bus Width 64-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 260 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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