NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1425MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

3744 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +4140%

10.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1425 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

30

96

Shading Units

3840

16

TMUs

120

4

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.688 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.40 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

171.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.94 TFLOPS

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.94 TFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

171.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

60-115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GA106

N12P-GS-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

12 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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