NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA Quadro K500M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GF108 GK107
GPU variant N12P-GS-A1 N14M-Q1
Architecture Fermi Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 585 million 1,270 million
Die size 116 mm² 118 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 5th, 2011 Jun 1st, 2012
Generation GeForce 500M Quadro Mobile (Kx000M)
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface MXM-A (3.0) MXM-A (3.0)
Predecessor GeForce 400M
Successor GeForce 600M
Reviews 26 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 672 MHz 850 MHz
Shader clock 1344 MHz
Memory clock 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 1024 MB
Memory type DDR3 DDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 28.80 GB/s 12.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 96 192
TMUs 16 16
ROPs 4 8
SM count 2
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per SMX)
Cache L2 256 KB 128 KB
SMX count 1

Performance

Pixel rate 2.688 GPixel/s 3.400 GPixel/s
Texture rate 10.75 GTexel/s 13.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 258.0 GFLOPS 326.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 21.50 GFLOPS (1:12) 13.60 GFLOPS (1:24)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module MXM Module
TDP 35 W 35 W
Outputs No outputs No outputs

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.1
CUDA 2.1 3.0
Shader model 5.1 5.1

Other Features

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