GeForce GT 540M and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 540M vs Radeon 8500
GeForce GT 540M
493
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce GT 540M
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
N12P-GS
R200
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
August 2001
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
672 MHz
275 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
258.05 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
-
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
2.200
Memory type
DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 API
8.1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
Optimus
+
-