GeForce GT 540M and Radeon RX 580G - video card comparison

GeForce GT 540M

Radeon RX 580G

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

N12P-GS

Polaris 20

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2011

October 2018

Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1330 MHz

Core clock speed

672 MHz

1257 MHz

CUDA cores

96

-

Floating-point performance

258.05 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

585 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

35 Watt

185 Watt

Texture fill rate

10.8 billion/sec

191.5

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

12 API

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

3D Blu-Ray

+

-

3D Gaming

+

-

Optimus

+

-