ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v vs ATI Radeon X800 SE

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v and ATI Radeon X800 SE videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

ATI Radeon X800 SE

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 29% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 425 MHz
Around 29% higher texture fill rate: 4.4 GTexel / s vs 3.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 188 vs 130

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2010 vs 4 October 2004
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 425 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.4 GTexel / s vs 3.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	188 vs 130

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 SE

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 384 vs 382

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	384 vs 382

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 SE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

188

130

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

382

384

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v	ATI Radeon X800 SE
PassMark - G3D Mark	188	130
PassMark - G2D Mark	382	384

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v	ATI Radeon X800 SE
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	R400
Code name	M92	R423
Launch date	5 May 2010	4 October 2004
Place in performance rating	410	411
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	88 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	80
Texture fill rate	4.4 GTexel / s	3.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	242 million	160 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	44.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2	DDR
Shared memory	0