GeForce GT 540M and Quadro K420 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 540M vs Quadro K420
GeForce GT 540M
493
Quadro K420
768
GeForce GT 540M
Quadro K420
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
N12P-GS
GK107
Market segment
Laptop
Workstation
Release date
January 2011
July 2014
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
672 MHz
876 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
258.05 gflops
336.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
192
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
41 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
14.02
Memory type
DDR3
128 Bit
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB/2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1782 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
Up to 29 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
DVI-I DP
Number of simultaneous displays
-
4
DirectX
12 API
12
CUDA
+
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5
Vulkan
N/A
+
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision Pro
-
+
Mosaic
-
+
nView Desktop Management
-
+
Optimus
+
-