Radeon RX 470 and GeForce GT 540M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GT 540M
Radeon RX 470
8339
GeForce GT 540M
493
Radeon RX 470
GeForce GT 540M
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
N12P-GS
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2016
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
-
Core clock speed
926 MHz
672 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
4,940 gflops
258.05 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
96
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
154.4
10.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6600 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
FreeSync
+
-
Optimus
-
+