AMD Radeon RX 540
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
AMD Radeon RX 540
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

394
Place in performance rating
431
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Value for money (0-100)
10.47
Polaris
Architecture
Fermi
Polaris 12
Code name
GF114
Laptop
Type
Laptop
21 March 2017 (4 years ago)
Release date
28 June 2011 (10 years ago)
$166
Price now
$170
13.38
Value for money
2.60
Polaris 12
GPU code name
N12E-GTX2
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

512
Pipelines
384
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Core clock speed
620 MHz
1219 MHz
Boost Clock
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1,500 million
Transistor count
1,950 million
14 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
39.01
Texture fill rate
39.7 billion/sec
1,248 gflops
Floating-point performance
952.3 gflops
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CUDA cores
384
512
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
1219 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
1,500 million
Number of transistors
1,950 million
65 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
100 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
1x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
None
large
Laptop size
large
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SLI options
+
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Bus support
PCI-E 2.0

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 MB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
6000 MHz
Memory clock speed
1500 MHz
96 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
96.0 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M is the additional functionality.

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3D Vision
+
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CUDA
+
no data
Optimus
+
+
FreeSync
no data
+
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
no data
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3D Gaming
+
no data
3D Blu-Ray
+
no data
DirectX 11
DirectX 11

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12.0
DirectX
12 API
4.6
OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
1.2
OpenCL
1.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon RX 540 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon RX 540
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon RX 540
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon RX 540
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon RX 540
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon RX 540
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon RX 540

2.36% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($166 vs $170)

More pipelines (512 vs 384)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 40 nm)

Less power consumption (65 Watt vs 100 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 2 MB)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

There is no accountable advantage

So, AMD Radeon RX 540 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon RX 540 .

AMD Radeon RX 540 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M performance benchmarks comparison

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