Radeon 540X vs GeForce 9500 GT

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	not rated	704
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	5.19
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	G96	Lexa
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	29 July 2008 (16 years ago)	5 September 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$85.99	no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	32	512
Core clock speed	550 MHz	980 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1046 MHz
Number of transistors	314 million	2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	9.600	33.47
Floating-point processing power	0.096 TFLOPS	1.071 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	16
TMUs	16	32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	175 mm	no data
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
SLI options	+	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz	1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)	48 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI	No outputs
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	+	-
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	S/PDIF	no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	4.0	6.4
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	+	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	29 July 2008	5 September 2018
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	65 nm	14 nm

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