AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 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

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1211MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +33%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

1.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

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Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Apr 2018

Solar System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1124 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1211 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

8

768

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.38 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.75 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

1240 GFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1240 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Polaris 23

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXL

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

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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