AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

VS

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 540X Mobile and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1095MHz

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 110W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 540X Mobile +165%

1.121 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.422 TFLOPS

Radeon 540X Mobile

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Sep 2008

Mobility Radeon

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

-

1095 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

4

512

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

35.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

1121 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1121 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

70.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

M88

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

110W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce MX130

2

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

3

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD FirePro M5100

4

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

5

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 6600S

6

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile

7

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X

8

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 610M

9

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon E9175 PCIe

10

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 6700M

Related News

1

Time to Step Up, AMD and Intel! Nvidia Faces Antitrust Lawsuits in France, US, and EU

2

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

3

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

4

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

5

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

6

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

7

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs

8

TSMC to Receive Over 60 EUV Lithography Machines Over the Next Two Years, Investing More Than $12.3 Billion

9

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

10

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied