GeForce GT 540M and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 540M
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
N12P-GS
GP104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
March 2018
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1708 MHz
Core clock speed
672 MHz
1506 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
258.05 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
136.6
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
Optimus
+
-