AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

VS

AMD Radeon R7 A260

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 A260 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 A260 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock980MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 A260 +191%

0.752 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 A260

VS

GeForce GT 540M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

980 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

384

Shading Units

96

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.688 GPixel/s

23.52 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.75 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

258.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

21.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

GF108

Topaz XT (216-0858020)

GPU Variant

N12P-GS-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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