NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +1241%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1038 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

96

4

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.688 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

-

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GM204

N12P-GS-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

398 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

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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