AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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 - T-Rex (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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 5

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 5

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
3.3x more pipelines: 320 vs 96
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 5 January 2011
Pipelines	320 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 40 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 5
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 5	NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	902	0
PassMark - G3D Mark		480
PassMark - G2D Mark		87
Geekbench - OpenCL		2120
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		960
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2701
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		960
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2701

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 5	NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Fermi
Code name	Vega	GF108
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	5 January 2011
Place in performance rating	1527	1500
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	320	96
Core clock speed		672 MHz
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	12.1	12 API
OpenCL		1.1
OpenGL		4.5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size		large
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		900 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
Optimus