GeForce GTX 1050 and GeForce GT 540M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GT 540M
GeForce GTX 1050
5198
GeForce GT 540M
493
GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce GT 540M
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N17P-G1
N12P-GS
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2016
January 2011
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Recommended system power (PSU)
300 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI
-
-
SLI options
-
-
Boost clock speed
1392 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1290 MHz
672 MHz
CUDA cores
640
96
Floating-point performance
1,862 gflops
258.05 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,300 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
35 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
58.20
10.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7008 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
2.2
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 API
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
Ansel
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
Optimus
-
+
VR Ready
+
-