NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs AMD Radeon HD 8690M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

AMD Radeon HD 8690M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8690M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8690M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8690M +141%

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

VS

Radeon HD 8690M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 500M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/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

7.800 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.50 GTexel/s

-

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

39.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Sun

N12P-GS-A1

GPU Variant

Sun S3 XT (216-0841009)

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

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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