AMD Radeon HD 6870M vs AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6870M AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

288 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1219MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870M

1.08 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile +15%

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M

VS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Nov 2017

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1124 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

8

800

Shading Units

512

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

Lexa

Granville XT (216-0769024)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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