GeForce GTX 460M and GeForce GT 540M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 460M vs GeForce GT 540M
GeForce GTX 460M
1283
GeForce GT 540M
493
GeForce GTX 460M
GeForce GT 540M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N11E-GS
N12P-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2010
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
672 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
518.4 gflops
258.05 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
96
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.1 billion/sec
10.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
60.0 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API with Feature Level 12.1
12 API
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
Optimus
-
+