AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

VS

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 540X Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile 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 months late

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1287MHz vs 1095MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 540X Mobile

1.121 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile +46%

1.647 TFLOPS

Radeon 540X Mobile

VS

Radeon 550X Mobile

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Apr 2018

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1095 MHz

Boost Clock

1287 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

10

512

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.59 GPixel/s

35.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.48 GTexel/s

1121 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1.647 TFLOPS

1121 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.647 TFLOPS

70.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Polaris 23

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce MX130

2

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD FirePro M5100

3

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

4

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X

5

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

6

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

7

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

8

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

9

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R5 A255

10

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD FirePro W7170M

Related News

1

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience

9

Intel Adds 5 New Device IDs to Latest Linux Xe Kernel in Preparation for Battlemage

10

Ryzen AI 9 365 Benchmark Results Leaked: Significant Improvements in Multi-Core and IPC Performance Over Previous Generation