NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX 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 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +1419%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1664

16

TMUs

104

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

75.39 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

148W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GM204

N12P-GS-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-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

6.4

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