AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R5 M230

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile AMD Radeon R5 M230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 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 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1211MHz vs 855MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile +217%

1.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230

0.39 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

Radeon R5 M230

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 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

825 MHz

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/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

4.880 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.20 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

390.4 GFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

Jet

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

Jet S3 ULT

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

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

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

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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