GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon 540

CORE STATE Lexa

VRAM 1024 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 50 W

BUS WIDTH 32 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1038 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

5,996

18,991

geekbench_vulkan

9,162

18,516

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

472

passmark_directx_10

N/A

28

passmark_directx_11

N/A

42

passmark_directx_12

N/A

24

passmark_directx_9

N/A

99

passmark_g2d

N/A

381

passmark_g3d

N/A

5,704

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,289

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

540

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

384

1,280 +233.3%

Shaders

384

1,280 +233.3%

TMUs

24

80 +233.3%

ROPs

16

48 +200.0%

Compute Units

6

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

924 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1038 MHz

GPU Clock

1183 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1500 MHz 6 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1024 MB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,024

6,144 +500.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

32 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

24.00 GB/s

120.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

908.5 GFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

56.78 GFLOPS (1:16)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

908.5 GFLOPS (1:1)

—

Power

TDP

50 W

—

TDP (W)

50

—

Suggested PSU

250 W

—

Power Connectors

None

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Lexa

GM204

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

GeForce 900M

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

2,200 million

5,200 million

Die Size

103 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

21.4M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Single-slot

MXM Module

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

MXM-B (3.0)

Other

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

GeForce 800M

Successor

Vega

GeForce 10 Mobile

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