AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs AMD FirePro W5170M

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile AMD FirePro W5170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1211MHz vs 925MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile +4%

1.24 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

1.184 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

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FirePro W5170M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Aug 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

10

512

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.80 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.00 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1184 GFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

Tropo

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

Tropo XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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