NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A vs AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850A and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1219MHz vs 936MHz)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850A

1.198 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile +4%

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850A

VS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Nov 2017

GeForce 800A

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Base Clock

1124 MHz

936 MHz

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

640

Shading Units

512

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

37.44 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

1198 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

37.44 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Lexa

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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