AMD Radeon HD 7480D vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7480D and NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7480D

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 128 vs 96
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 119 vs 90
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 26 September 2012 vs 5 January 2011
Pipelines 128 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 119 vs 90

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

  • Around 9% higher core clock speed: 672 MHz vs 614 MHz
  • 3.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2154 vs 694
  • 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 960 vs 348
  • 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 960 vs 348
  • Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 478 vs 281
  • Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2210 vs 1235
  • Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2210 vs 1235
  • Around 59% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2701 vs 1704
  • Around 59% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2701 vs 1704
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 672 MHz vs 614 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 2154 vs 694
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 960 vs 348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 960 vs 348
PassMark - G3D Mark 478 vs 281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2210 vs 1235
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2210 vs 1235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2701 vs 1704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2701 vs 1704

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7480D
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
694
2154
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
348
960
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
348
960
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
119
90
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
281
478
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1235
2210
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1235
2210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1704
2701
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1704
2701
Name AMD Radeon HD 7480D NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
Geekbench - OpenCL 694 2154
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 348 960
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 348 960
PassMark - G2D Mark 119 90
PassMark - G3D Mark 281 478
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1235 2210
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1235 2210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1704 2701
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1704 2701
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 4.85
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 195.796
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.561
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 9.109
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 16.727
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7480D NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 3 Fermi
Code name Trinity GF108
Launch date 26 September 2012 5 January 2011
Place in performance rating 1498 1500
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 724 MHz
Core clock speed 614 MHz 672 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 128 96
CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 258.05 gflops
Texture fill rate 10.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt
Transistor count 585 million

API support

DirectX 11 12 API
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Shared memory 1 0
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz
Memory type DDR3

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size large

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus