AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X

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AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M270X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X 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 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1219MHz vs 1000MHz)

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

AMD Radeon R9 M270X 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X +23%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

VS

Radeon R9 M270X

Graphics Card

Nov 2017

Release Date

Feb 2015

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

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

16.00 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Saturn

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

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

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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