GeForce GT 540M vs GeForce 710M

GeForce GT 540M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 Jan 2011
GeForce GT 540M
GeForce 710M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 24 Jul 2013
GeForce 710M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 540M
    100%
  • GeForce 710M
    110%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 540M

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 710M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 10% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce 710M

HWBench recommends GeForce 710M

The GeForce 710M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 540MGeForce 710M
GPU NameGF108 (N12P-GS-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors585 millionvsunknown
Shaders96vs192
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock672 MHzvs719 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 540MGeForce 710M
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 540MGeForce 710M
TDP35 wattsvs15 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2011vs24 Jul 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 540M
    2.68 GP/s
  • GeForce 710M
    5.75 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 540M
    10.75 GT/s
  • GeForce 710M
    11.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 540M
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce 710M
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 540M
    258.05 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 710M
    276.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 540M
    990
  • GeForce 710M
    1090

Points (higher is better)

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