AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M 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 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1211MHz vs 1085MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

1.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M +12%

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 860M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

1020 MHz

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

GM107

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

N15P-GX-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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