AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q 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 10 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1379MHz vs 1211MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

1.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q +355%

5.648 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jun 2017

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

1215 MHz

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.26 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.5 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

88.26 GFLOPS

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.648 TFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

176.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

GP104

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

N17E-G2-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

115W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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