GeForce GT 540M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

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GeForce GT 540M Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GT 540M Advantages

Released 1 years late

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M

258

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition +289%

1005

GeForce GT 540M

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Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2010

GeForce 500M

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

96

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.688 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.05 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.12 GTexel/s

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1005 GFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Broadway

N12P-GS-A1

GPU Variant

Broadway PRO

(216-0769024)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

30W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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