NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G96 GF108
Architecture Tesla Fermi
Foundry UMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 314 million 585 million
Die size 144 mm² 116 mm²
GPU variant N12P-GS-A1

Graphics Card

Release date Jul 29th, 2008
Generation GeForce 9
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 22 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 8
Successor GeForce 200

Clocks

GPU clock 600 MHz 672 MHz
Shader clock 1500 MHz 1344 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 32.00 GB/s 28.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 32 96
TMUs 16 16
ROPs 8 4
SM count 4 2
Cache L2 32 KB 256 KB
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM)

Performance

Pixel rate 4.800 GPixel/s 2.688 GPixel/s
Texture rate 9.600 GTexel/s 10.75 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 96.00 GFLOPS 258.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 21.50 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot MXM Module
TDP 50 W 35 W
Suggested PSU 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors None

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 3.3 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1 2.1
Shader model 4.0 5.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 5th, 2011
Generation GeForce 500M
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-A (3.0)
Predecessor GeForce 400M
Successor GeForce 600M

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