AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M485X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M485X 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 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1211MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 M485X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

1.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M485X +138%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

Radeon R9 M485X

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

May 2016

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Crystal System

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

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

32

-

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

Amethyst

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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