AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R7 M260X

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AMD Radeon 540X Mobile AMD Radeon R7 M260X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 540X Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 M260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1095MHz vs 715MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 M260X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 540X Mobile +104%

1.121 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M260X

0.549 TFLOPS

Radeon 540X Mobile

VS

Radeon R7 M260X

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Dec 2015

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

620 MHz

1095 MHz

Boost Clock

715 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

6

512

Shading Units

384

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

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

5.720 GPixel/s

35.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.16 GTexel/s

1121 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1121 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

549.1 GFLOPS

70.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Opal

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Opal PRO

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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