AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

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AMD Radeon 540X Mobile AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 540X Mobile and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1250MHz vs 1095MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 540X Mobile

1.121 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +699%

8.96 TFLOPS

Radeon 540X Mobile

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Aug 2017

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1138 MHz

1095 MHz

Boost Clock

1250 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

64bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

56

512

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.00 GPixel/s

35.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

280.0 GTexel/s

1121 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

17.92 TFLOPS

1121 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.960 TFLOPS

70.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

560.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Vega 10

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

210W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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