NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1468MHz vs 1211MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +506%

7.516 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

1.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

VS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1290 MHz

Base Clock

1124 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1211 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

512

160

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

93.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.38 GPixel/s

234.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.75 GTexel/s

117.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1240 GFLOPS

7.516 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1240 GFLOPS

234.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Polaris 23

N17E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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