NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3430 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

56 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 's Advantages

Lower TDP (12W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M +616%

0.258 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3430

0.036 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3430

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 500M

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

40

16

TMUs

4

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.688 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.800 GTexel/s

-

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

36.00 GFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

12W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

M82

N12P-GS-A1

GPU Variant

M82-SE

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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