NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs AMD Radeon R9 M395X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

AMD Radeon R9 M395X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X 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 75W)

AMD Radeon R9 M395X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X +1047%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

VS

Radeon R9 M395X

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 500M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.688 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Amethyst

N12P-GS-A1

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

5 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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