AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M 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 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1211MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile +7%

1.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

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GeForce GTX 850M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Mar 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

-

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.03GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.43 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.08 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1155 GFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

36.08 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

GM107

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

N15P-GT-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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