AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1219MHz

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

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +32%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Nov 2017

Release Date

May 2013

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

-

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

12

-

512

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Saturn

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

160 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

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