GeForce GT 540M and Quadro NVS 290 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 540M vs Quadro NVS 290
GeForce GT 540M
493
Quadro NVS 290
235
GeForce GT 540M
Quadro NVS 290
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N12P-GS
G86
Market segment
Laptop
Workstation
Release date
January 2011
October 2007
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
672 MHz
459 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
258.05 gflops
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
16
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
21 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
3.672
Memory type
DDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DMS-59
DirectX
12 API
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
Optimus
+
-