Radeon RX 550 Mobile and GeForce GT 540M - video card comparison
Radeon RX 550 Mobile
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 x8
MXM-A (3.0)
Boost clock speed
1476 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1287 MHz
672 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
1,647 gflops
258.05 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
96
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
51.48
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 (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
-
+