AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

VS

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M485X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 540X Mobile and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M485X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1095MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 M485X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 540X Mobile

1.121 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M485X +164%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon 540X Mobile

VS

Radeon R9 M485X

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

May 2016

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

-

1095 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

32

-

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

35.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

1121 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

1121 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

70.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Amethyst

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile

2

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 945A

3

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD FirePro M3900

4

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

5

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X

6

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X

7

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M275X

8

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

9

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 720M

10

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R7 M460

Related News

1

Introducing the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX: A First Look at the Flagship Gaming Laptop CPU

2

AMD's Thunderous Strike: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Scores Revealed for the First Time!

3

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

4

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

5

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

6

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

7

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

8

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

9

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

10

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N