AMD Radeon R9 M470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M470

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 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 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)

Radeon R9 M470 +495%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470

VS

GeForce GT 540M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jan 2011

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

768

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.688 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.75 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

258.0 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

21.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GF108

Emerald PRO

GPU Variant

N12P-GS-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

160 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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