NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M and NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 68% higher core clock speed: 672 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 3.4x more texture fill rate: 10.8 billion / sec vs 3.2 GTexel / s
  • 12x more pipelines: 96 vs 8
  • 20.2x better floating-point performance: 258.05 gflops vs 12.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 900 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 4.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 478 vs 105
  • 5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2701 vs 542
  • 5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2701 vs 542
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 January 2011 vs 9 May 2007
Core clock speed 672 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 10.8 billion / sec vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 96 vs 8
Floating-point performance 258.05 gflops vs 12.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 900 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 478 vs 105
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2701 vs 542
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2701 vs 542

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

  • 3.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 35 Watt
  • Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 124 vs 90
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 35 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 124 vs 90

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
478
105
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
90
124
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2701
542
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2701
542
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G
PassMark - G3D Mark 478 105
PassMark - G2D Mark 90 124
Geekbench - OpenCL 2154
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 542
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 960
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2701 542
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla
Code name GF108 G86
Launch date 5 January 2011 9 May 2007
Place in performance rating 1500 1503
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 672 MHz 400 MHz
CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 258.05 gflops 12.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 96 8
Texture fill rate 10.8 billion / sec 3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 10 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3 / GDDR2
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0