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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

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