NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI

  • 8.8x more pipelines: 704 vs 80
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
Pipelines 704 vs 80
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

  • Around 29% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 425 MHz
  • 6.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 100 Watt
  • Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Core clock speed 550 MHz vs 425 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 100 Watt
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v
PassMark - G3D Mark 188
PassMark - G2D Mark 382

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale
Code name N11E-GTX-A3 M92
Launch date 25 May 2010 5 May 2010
Place in performance rating not rated 415
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 425 MHz 550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 704 80
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 6000 Million 242 million
Floating-point performance 88 gflops
Texture fill rate 4.4 GTexel / s

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size large
Interface MXM-A (3.0)

API support

DirectX 11 10.1
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2
Shared memory 0 0
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs