GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameM92AD103
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 May 2010 (14 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores809728
Core clock speed550 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1455 MHz
Number of transistors242 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate4.400442.3
Floating-point processing power0.088 TFLOPS28.31 TFLOPS
ROPs4112
TMUs8304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Coresno data76

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).

InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s448.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 May 2010 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 80 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 540v has 433.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 540v and GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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