GeForce GT 540M and GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q - video card comparison
GeForce GT 540M
GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N12P-GS
GA107
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
December 2021
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
1155 MHz
Core clock speed
672 MHz
-
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
258.05 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
73.92
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
Optimus
+
-