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    GeForce GT 540M vs GeForce GTX 950M

    GeForce GT 540M
    Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 5 Jan 2011
    GeForce GT 540M
    GeForce GTX 950M
    Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Mar 2015
    GeForce GTX 950M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GT 540M
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      445%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GT 540M

    40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 950M .
    Supports PhysX
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 345% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 950M

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950M

    The GeForce GTX 950M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GT 540MGeForce GTX 950M
    GPU NameGF108 (N12P-GS-A1)vsGM107 (N16P-GT)
    Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size116 mm²vs148 mm²
    Transistors585 millionvs1,870 million
    Shaders96vs640
    Compute Units2vs5
    Core clock672 MHzvs993 MHz
    ROPs4vs16
    TMUs16vs40

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GT 540MGeForce GTX 950M
    Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
    Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed900 MHz
    1800 MHz effective    		vs900 MHz
    1800 MHz effective
    Memory Size1024 Mbvs4096 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GT 540MGeForce GTX 950M
    TDP35 wattsvs75 watts
    Release Date5 Jan 2011vs13 Mar 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GT 540M
      2.68 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      15.89 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GT 540M
      10.75 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      39.70 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GT 540M
      28.80 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      28.80 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GT 540M
      258.05 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      1271.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GT 540M
      990
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      4410

    Points (higher is better)

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