GeForce GT 540M and Steam Deck GPU - video card comparison
GeForce GT 540M
Steam Deck GPU
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N12P-GS
Van Gogh
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
February 2022
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
-
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
1600 MHz
Core clock speed
672 MHz
-
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
258.05 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
2,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
512
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
51.20
Memory type
DDR3
LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
88 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x USB Type-C
DirectX
12 API
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
Optimus
+
-