
Radeon RX 540 and GeForce GT 540M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs GeForce GT 540M
Radeon RX 540
2872
GeForce GT 540M
493
Radeon RX 540
GeForce GT 540M
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
N12P-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
672 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
258.05 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
10.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12.0
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
FreeSync
+
-
Optimus
-
+