AMD Radeon HD 6540G2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6540G2 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
10x more pipelines: 480 vs 48

Launch date	14 June 2011 vs 3 September 2010
Pipelines	480 vs 48

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

Around 44% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1158 vs 802
Around 44% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1158 vs 802
Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1626 vs 1597
Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1626 vs 1597

Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1158 vs 802
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1158 vs 802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1626 vs 1597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1626 vs 1597

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6540G2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

802

1158

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

802

1158

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1597

1626

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1597

1626

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6540G2	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	802	1158
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	802	1158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1597	1626
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1597	1626
PassMark - G3D Mark		426
PassMark - G2D Mark		189
Geekbench - OpenCL		1161
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		3.121
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		109.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		5.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		8.55
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		660
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		660

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6540G2	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 2	Fermi
Launch date	14 June 2011	3 September 2010
Place in performance rating	1524	1526
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Code name		GF108
Technical info
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	480	48
Core clock speed		700 MHz
Floating-point performance		134.4 gflops
Texture fill rate		2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		50 Watt
Transistor count		585 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	medium sized
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		145 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Memory
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		1048 MB
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA