NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M +322%

0.258 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

VS

GeForce 8600M GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

4

96

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.688 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

-

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

G84

N12P-GS-A1

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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