NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +1556%

4.275 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1404 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

10

96

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

48

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.688 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.16 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

133.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

66.80 GFLOPS

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.275 TFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

133.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GP106

N12P-GS-A1

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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