GeForce GT 540M and Radeon HD 8730A - video card comparison
GeForce GT 540M
Radeon HD 8730A
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
N12P-GS
Mars
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
April 2013
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
-
700 MHz
Core clock speed
672 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
258.05 gflops
537.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
384
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
16.80
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
32 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
+
-