NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
2432 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1211MHz vs 1095MHz)
Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q
+419%
6.447 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 540X Mobile
1.24 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2019
Release Date
Apr 2018
GeForce 20 Mobile
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
735 MHz
Base Clock
1124 MHz
1095 MHz
Boost Clock
1211 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
46
SM Count
-
2944
Shading Units
512
184
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
16
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
70.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.38 GPixel/s
201.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.75 GTexel/s
12.89 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
1240 GFLOPS
6.447 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1240 GFLOPS
201.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
50W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
Polaris 23
N18E-G3-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 23 MXL
Turing
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
12 nm
Process Size
14 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
