ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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Graphics Processor

GPU model M92 G96C
Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 55 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 242 million 314 million
Die size 73 mm² 121 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date May 5th, 2010
Generation M9x (Mobility HD 500v)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-A (3.0)
Reviews 2 in our database
Predecessor M8x
Successor Manhattan

Clocks

GPU clock 550 MHz 550 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1400 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 12.80 GB/s 25.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 80 32
TMUs 8 16
ROPs 4 8
Compute units 1
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 64 KB 32 KB
SM count 4

Performance

Pixel rate 2.200 GPixel/s 4.400 GPixel/s
Texture rate 4.400 GTexel/s 8.800 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 88.00 GFLOPS 89.60 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module Single-slot
TDP 15 W 50 W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video
Length 145 mm 5.7 inches
Suggested PSU 250 W
Power connectors None

API Support & Features

DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 4.1 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date May 19th, 2010
Generation GeForce 9
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 22 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 8
Successor GeForce 200

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