AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M 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 late

Boost Clock has increased by 73% (1211MHz vs 700MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile +130%

1.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8730M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Apr 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

650 MHz

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

700 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

6

-

512

Shading Units

384

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

Mars

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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