Radeon 540X vs GeForce 9500M GE

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated701
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data5.15
Architectureno dataGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameMCP79Mx + NB9MLexa
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date9 January 2008 (16 years ago)5 September 2018 (6 years ago)

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 cores24512
Core clock speedno data980 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1046 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data33.47
Floating-point processing powerno data1.071 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data32

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR2, GDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount256 MB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data48 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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.012 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 January 2008 5 September 2018
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 50 Watt

9500M GE has 100% lower power consumption.

Radeon 540X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9500M GE and Radeon 540X. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
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