Mobility Radeon HD 5670 Mac Edition vs GeForce GT 540M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5670 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Mobility Radeon HD 5670 Mac Edition Advantages
304 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (15W vs 35W)
GeForce GT 540M Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 25.44GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Mobility Radeon HD 5670 Mac Edition
+101%
520
GeForce GT 540M
258
Graphics Card
Apr 2010
Release Date
Jan 2011
Manhattan
Generation
GeForce 500M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
795 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.44GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
5
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
400
Shading Units
96
20
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
4
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
5.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.688 GPixel/s
13.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.75 GTexel/s
520.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
258.0 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
21.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
15W
TDP
35W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
Madison
GPU Name
GF108
Madison XT
(216-0772003)
(216-0772003)
GPU Variant
N12P-GS-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.627 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
104 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.0
Shader Model
5.1