GeForce GT 540M vs GeForce 8800 GS
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 540M |
| 70 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 8800 GS . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce 8800 GS |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends GeForce 8800 GS
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 540M | | GeForce 8800 GS | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF108 (N12P-GS-A1) | vs | G92 (G92-150-A2) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 116 mm² | vs | 324 mm² |
| Transistors | 585 million | vs | 754 million |
| Shaders | 96 | vs | 96 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 6 |
| Core clock | 672 MHz | vs | 550 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 12 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 540M | | GeForce 8800 GS | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 192 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 384 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 540M | | GeForce 8800 GS | |
|---|
| TDP | 35 watts | vs | 105 watts |
| Release Date | 5 Jan 2011 | vs | 31 Jan 2008 |
GeForce GT 540M
2.68 GP/s
GeForce 8800 GS
6.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 540M
10.75 GT/s
GeForce 8800 GS
26.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 540M
28.80 GB/s
GeForce 8800 GS
38.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 540M
258.05 GFLOPs
GeForce 8800 GS
264.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better