Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GT 540M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GT 540M
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GT 540M
493
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GT 540M
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Hawaii
N12P-GS
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2013
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
Core clock speed
947 MHz
672 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
258.05 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
96
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
10.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
Optimus
-
+