AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock1211MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile +88%

1.24 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2018

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1124 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1211 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

8

-

320

Shading Units

512

20

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.38 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.75 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1240 GFLOPS

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1240 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

Polaris 23

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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