NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs AMD Radeon R9 M470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

AMD Radeon R9 M470

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470 +495%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

VS

Radeon R9 M470

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 500M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

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

16.00 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Emerald

N12P-GS-A1

GPU Variant

Emerald PRO

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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