AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile 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 1 years late

Boost Clock1211MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile +88%

1.24 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

Radeon 520 Mobile

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Apr 2017

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

-

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

5

-

512

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.240 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.60 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

659.2 GFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

41.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

Banks

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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