NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M 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 45W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.03GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M +347%

1.155 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

VS

GeForce GTX 850M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.03GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.688 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.43 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.08 GTexel/s

-

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1155 GFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

36.08 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GM107

N12P-GS-A1

GPU Variant

N15P-GT-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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