NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3850 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 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3850 +43%

0.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 500M

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.688 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.280 GTexel/s

-

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

371.2 GFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

M88

N12P-GS-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand

2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

3

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs AMD Radeon R5 A320

4

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

5

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M

6

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

7

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M

8

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

9

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs AMD Radeon RX 6700M

10

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early