AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6870M

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 6870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M 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 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1211MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile +14%

1.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M

1.08 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 6870M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2011

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

-

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

10

-

512

Shading Units

800

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

Granville

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

Granville XT (216-0769024)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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