GeForce RTX 4080 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 ranking1292not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.58no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameM92AD104
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 cores807424
Core clock speed550 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1350 MHz
Number of transistors242 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate4.400313.2
Floating-point processing power0.088 TFLOPS20.04 TFLOPS
ROPs480
TMUs8232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Coresno data58

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 MB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s336.0 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 12 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 60 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 540v has 300% lower power consumption.

RTX 4080 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 540v and GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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