GeForce GT 540M and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison

GeForce GT 540M

Radeon HD 8550M

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

N12P-GS

Sun

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

January 2011

November 2012

Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x8

Boost clock speed

-

850 MHz

Core clock speed

672 MHz

700 MHz

CUDA cores

96

-

Floating-point performance

258.05 gflops

544.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

585 million

690 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

384

Power consumption (TDP)

35 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

10.8 billion/sec

17.00

Memory type

DDR3

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

14.4 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

DirectX

12 API

12 (11_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

3D Blu-Ray

+

-

3D Gaming

+

-

Optimus

+

-