AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 6990M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M 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 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1211MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 6990M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

1.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M +29%

1.602 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 6990M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jul 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

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

14

-

512

Shading Units

1120

32

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.88 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

40.04 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.602 TFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XTX (216-0811030)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

212 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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