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    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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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