AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M 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 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1211MHz vs 1127MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

1.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +179%

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Oct 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

GM204

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

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

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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