AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 540 and NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 540

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more boost clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 251 vs 198
  • 10x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1383 vs 138
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 24 February 2005
Boost clock speed 1124 MHz vs 450 MHz
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 251 vs 198
PassMark - G3D Mark 1383 vs 138

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

  • 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 Go 6800 Ultra

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
251
198
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1383
138
Name AMD Radeon 540 NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
PassMark - G2D Mark 251 198
PassMark - G3D Mark 1383 138
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 Go 6800 Ultra

Essentials

Architecture 4th Gen GCN Curie
Code name Topaz NV41
Design AMD Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 24 February 2005
Place in performance rating 882 879
Type Notebook Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1124 MHz 450 MHz
Compute units 8
Floating-point performance 1.2 TFLOPs
Render output units 16
Stream Processors 512
Texture Units 32
Core clock speed 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm
Pipelines 12
Texture fill rate 5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 89 Watt
Transistor count 222 million

Video outputs and ports

DisplayPort support
HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs

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 600 Bit
Memory clock speed 6 Gbps 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 256
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture
AMD Radeon™ Chill
FreeSync
HDMI 4K Support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None