Radeon 540X vs GeForce2 MX

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1598	755
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	5.76
Architecture	Celsius (1999−2005)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	NV11 A2	Lexa
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	28 June 2000 (25 years ago)	5 September 2018 (7 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 cores	no data	512
Core clock speed	175 MHz	980 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1046 MHz
Number of transistors	20 million	2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	180 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	0.7	33.47
Floating-point processing power	no data	1.071 TFLOPS
ROPs	2	16
TMUs	4	32
L1 Cache	no data	128 KB
L2 Cache	no data	512 KB

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	AGP 4x	PCIe 3.0 x8
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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	SDR	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	166 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	2.656 GB/s	48 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

1x VGA

No outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	7.0	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	no data	6.4
OpenGL	1.2	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131

Synthetic benchmarks

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

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

no data

19

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	28 June 2000	5 September 2018
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	2 GB
Chip lithography	180 nm	14 nm

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