GeForce GT 540M and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 540M vs Radeon R5 230
GeForce GT 540M
493
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce GT 540M
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N12P-GS
Caicos
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
April 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
N/A
Core clock speed
672 MHz
-
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
258.05 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
160
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
5.000
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 API
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
Optimus
+
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-