AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8590M

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile AMD Radeon HD 8590M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8590M 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 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1211MHz vs 825MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 36.00GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile +134%

1.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8590M

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8590M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Mar 2013

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

750 MHz

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

825 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

36.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

5

512

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.50 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

Sun

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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