AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 2.4x more core clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 2.4x more boost clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 3250.8x more texture fill rate: 39.01 GTexel/s vs 12 GTexel / s
  • 21.3x more pipelines: 512 vs 24
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • 5x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 361 vs 264
  • 7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1896 vs 270
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 18 April 2006
Core clock speed 1219 MHz vs 500 MHz
Boost clock speed 1219 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 39.01 GTexel/s vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines 512 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 361 vs 264
PassMark - G3D Mark 1896 vs 270

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

  • Around 44% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 65 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
361
264
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1896
270
Name AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX
PassMark - G2D Mark 361 264
PassMark - G3D Mark 1896 270
Geekbench - OpenCL 9416
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2296

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Curie
Code name Cape Verde G71
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 3rd Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 18 April 2006
Place in performance rating 626 625
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1219 MHz 500 MHz
Compute units 8
Core clock speed 1219 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 1.2 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 512 24
Pixel fill rate 19.50 GP/s
Render output units 16
Stream Processors 512
Texture fill rate 39.01 GTexel/s 12 GTexel / s
Texture Units 32
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 1,500 million 278 million

Video outputs and ports

DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 9.0c
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.1
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 96 GB/s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 600 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 256
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
Enduro
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)