NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile +155%

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

VS

Radeon 520 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 500M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.688 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.240 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.60 GTexel/s

-

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

659.2 GFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

41.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Banks

N12P-GS-A1

GPU Variant

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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