NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS 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 - 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 92% higher core clock speed: 672 MHz vs 350 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 10.8 billion / sec vs 5.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 479 vs 192
Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 91 vs 72

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2011 vs 8 December 2005
Core clock speed	672 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	10.8 billion / sec vs 5.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	479 vs 192
PassMark - G2D Mark	91 vs 72

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 900 MHz

Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 900 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

479

192

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	479	192
PassMark - G2D Mark	91	72
Geekbench - OpenCL	2161
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
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Curie
Code name	GF108	NV40 A1
Launch date	5 January 2011	8 December 2005
Place in performance rating	1500	1497
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$249
Technical info
Core clock speed	672 MHz	350 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	258.05 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	10.8 billion / sec	5.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	222 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)	AGP 8x
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus