GeForce GT 540M vs GeForce GT 710

GeForce GT 540M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 Jan 2011
GeForce GT 540M
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 540M
    100%
  • GeForce GT 710
    112%

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 710

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 12% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 710

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 710

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 540MGeForce GT 710
GPU NameGF108 (N12P-GS-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors585 millionvsunknown
Shaders96vs192
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock672 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 540MGeForce GT 710
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 GT 710
TDP35 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2011vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

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

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

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

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

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

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 540M
    990
  • GeForce GT 710
    1110

Points (higher is better)