GeForce GT 540M vs Radeon R7 M265

GeForce GT 540M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 Jan 2011
GeForce GT 540M
Radeon R7 M265
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 9 Jan 2014
Radeon R7 M265

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 540M
    100%
  • Radeon R7 M265
    186%

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon R7 M265

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 86% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 M265

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 M265

The Radeon R7 M265 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 540MRadeon R7 M265
GPU NameGF108 (N12P-GS-A1)vsOpal (Opal XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders96vs384
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock672 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs16vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 540MRadeon R7 M265
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 540MRadeon R7 M265
TDP35 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2011vs9 Jan 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 540M
    2.68 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 M265
    6.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 540M
    10.75 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 M265
    19.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 540M
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 M265
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 540M
    258.05 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 M265
    633.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 540M
    990
  • Radeon R7 M265
    1850

Points (higher is better)

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