AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 2GB VRAM Radeon 540X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1095MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +47%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon 540X Mobile

1.121 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Radeon 540X Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Feb 2019

Solar System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1095 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

8

-

768

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.52 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1121 GFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1121 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.08 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Lexa

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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