GeForce GTX 960M and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon RX 540
GeForce GTX 960M
3496
Radeon RX 540
2872
GeForce GTX 960M
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
N16P-GX
Polaris 12
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
March 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
-
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
512
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
47.04
39.01
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
FreeSync
-
+
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-