GeForce GT 540M and Radeon HD 8650M - video card comparison

GeForce GT 540M

Radeon HD 8650M

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

N12P-GS

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Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

January 2011

January 2013

Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

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Core clock speed

672 MHz

650 MHz

CUDA cores

96

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Floating-point performance

258.05 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

585 million

900 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

384

Power consumption (TDP)

35 Watt

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Texture fill rate

10.8 billion/sec

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Memory type

DDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

4500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 API

11.1

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

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OpenGL

4.5

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Shader Model

5.1

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Vulkan

N/A

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3D Blu-Ray

+

-

3D Gaming

+

-

Optimus

+

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