GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 vs Radeon 540X

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking701not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.15no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameLexaGP108
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date5 September 2018 (6 years ago)13 January 2021 (3 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 cores512256
Core clock speed980 MHz1228 MHz
Boost clock speed1046 MHz1468 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate33.4723.49
Floating-point processing power1.071 TFLOPS0.7516 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs3216

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x4
Lengthno data147 mm
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeGDDR5DDR4
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1050 MHz
Memory bandwidth48 GB/s16.8 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 outputs2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 September 2018 13 January 2021
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 30 Watt

GT 1010 DDR4 has an age advantage of 2 years, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 540X and GeForce GT 1010 DDR4. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 540X is a notebook card while GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon 540X
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