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GeForce GT 540M and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 540M vs Radeon HD 3870

GeForce GT 540M
493
Radeon HD 3870
572

GeForce GT 540M

Radeon HD 3870


Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name
N12P-GS
RV670

Market segment
Laptop
Desktop

Release date
January 2011
November 2007

Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin

Core clock speed
672 MHz
777 MHz

CUDA cores
96
-

Floating-point performance
258.05 gflops
497.3 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm

Number of transistors
585 million
666 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
320

Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
106 Watt

Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
12.43

Memory type
DDR3
GDDR4

Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB

Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
900 MHz
2252 MHz

Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
72.06 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX
12 API
10.1 (10_1)

CUDA
+
-

OpenCL
1.1
N/A

OpenGL
4.5
3.3

Shader Model
5.1
4.1

Vulkan
N/A
N/A

3D Blu-Ray
+
-

3D Gaming
+
-

Optimus
+
-