Radeon HD 7540D IGP vs GeForce 9600 GTX

Radeon HD 7540D IGP
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 2 Oct 2012
Radeon HD 7540D IGP
GeForce 9600 GTX
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 May 2009
GeForce 9600 GTX

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7540D IGP

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9600 GTX .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GTX

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7540D IGPGeForce 9600 GTX
GPU NameScrapper ()vsG92 ()
Fab Process32 nmvs65 nm
Die Size246 mm²vs324 mm²
Transistors1,303 millionvs754 million
Shaders192vs96
Compute Units3vs6
Core clock760 MHzvs580 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs12vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7540D IGPGeForce 9600 GTX
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR3
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs256 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7540D IGPGeForce 9600 GTX
TDP65 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date2 Oct 2012vs27 May 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7540D IGP
    3.04 GP/s
  • GeForce 9600 GTX
    9.28 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7540D IGP
    9.12 GT/s
  • GeForce 9600 GTX
    27.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7540D IGP
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 9600 GTX
    44.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7540D IGP
    291.80 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9600 GTX
    278.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better