Radeon RX 540 and GeForce GTX 280M SLI - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540
GeForce GTX 280M SLI
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
N10E-GTX
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
March 2009
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
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Core clock speed
-
585 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
1508 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
256
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
950 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
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DirectX
12.0
10
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.6
-
Shader Model
5.0
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FreeSync
+
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