AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 540 and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, API support, Memory, Technologies, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 540

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 2 month(s) later
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 251 vs 199
7.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1383 vs 177

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 2 February 2006
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	251 vs 199
PassMark - G3D Mark	1383 vs 177

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

200x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 6 Gbps

Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 6 Gbps

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 540
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

251

199

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1383

177

Name	AMD Radeon 540	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP
PassMark - G2D Mark	251	199
PassMark - G3D Mark	1383	177
Geekbench - OpenCL	35524
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2355
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2355
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1726
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1726

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 540	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP
Essentials
Architecture	4th Gen GCN	Curie
Code name	Topaz	G71
Design	AMD Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	2 February 2006
Place in performance rating	872	869
Type	Notebook	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz
Compute units	8
Floating-point performance	1.2 TFLOPs
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512
Texture Units	32
Core clock speed		375 MHz
Manufacturing process technology		90 nm
Texture fill rate		6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Transistor count		278 million
Video outputs and ports
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
Vulkan
OpenGL		2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	48 GB/s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6 Gbps	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture
AMD Radeon™ Chill
FreeSync
HDMI 4K Support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex