GeForce GT 540M vs GeForce 830A

GeForce GT 540M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 Jan 2011
GeForce GT 540M
GeForce 830A
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 22 Jul 2014
GeForce 830A

Summary

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 830A

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce 830A

HWBench recommends GeForce 830A

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 540MGeForce 830A
GPU NameGF108 (N12P-GS-A1)vsGM108 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs0 mm²
Transistors585 millionvsunknown
Shaders96vs256
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock672 MHzvs1082 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 540MGeForce 830A
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 540MGeForce 830A
TDP35 wattsvs33 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2011vs22 Jul 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 540M
    2.68 GP/s
  • GeForce 830A
    8.66 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 540M
    10.75 GT/s
  • GeForce 830A
    17.31 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 540M
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce 830A
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 540M
    258.05 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 830A
    554.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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