NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +929%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce GT 540M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.688 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.75 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

258.0 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

21.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF108

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N12P-GS-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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