NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs AMD Radeon E8860

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

AMD Radeon E8860

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 2GB VRAM Radeon E8860 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 37W)

AMD Radeon E8860 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock625MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

Radeon E8860 +210%

0.8 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

VS

Radeon E8860

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 500M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

575 MHz

-

Boost Clock

625 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.688 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

37W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x VGA

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Venus

N12P-GS-A1

GPU Variant

Venus MCM

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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