GeForce GT 540M and Radeon 520 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GT 540M
Radeon 520 OEM
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
N12P-GS
Banks
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
April 2017
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
672 MHz
1030 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
258.05 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
320
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
20.60
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
4.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
36 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.1 (1.2)
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.170
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
Optimus
+
-