AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R7 M260

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

AMD Radeon R7 M260

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M260 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 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1211MHz vs 980MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile +64%

1.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M260

0.752 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

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Radeon R7 M260

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jun 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

940 MHz

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/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

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.840 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.52 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

752.6 GFLOPS

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

752.6 GFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

Topaz

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

Topaz XT (216-0858020)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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