AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M 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 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1211MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (38W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile +369%

1.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jun 2009

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

-

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

512

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

38W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

GT215

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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