GeForce 310 OEM vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

GeForce 310 OEM
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2009
GeForce 310 OEM
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Jun 2015
GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 310 OEM

219 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 980 Ti .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980 Ti

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 310 OEMGeForce GTX 980 Ti
GPU NameGT218 (GT218-300-A2)vsGM200 (GM200-310-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size57 mm²vs601 mm²
Transistors260 millionvs8,000 million
Shaders16vs2816
Compute Units2vs22
Core clock589 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs4vs96
TMUs8vs176

Memory Configuration

GeForce 310 OEMGeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed333 MHz
666 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 310 OEMGeForce GTX 980 Ti
TDP31 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date27 Nov 2009vs2 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 310 OEM
    2.36 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    96.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 310 OEM
    4.71 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    176.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 310 OEM
    5.33 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    337.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 310 OEM
    44.86 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    5632.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better