Mobility Radeon HD 540v and GeForce 8600M GS - video card comparison
Mobility Radeon HD 540v
GeForce 8600M GS
Architecture
Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
M92
G84M
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2010
June 2007
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
550 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
88 gflops
28.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
242 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
16
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.400
3.600
Memory type
GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2
GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A