AMD Radeon 540 Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

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AMD Radeon 540 Mobile ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 540 Mobile and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 55W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 540 Mobile +172%

1.151 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

Radeon 540 Mobile

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Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jun 2008

Mobility Radeon

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

4

512

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

35.97 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

1151 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1151 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

71.94 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

M88

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

55W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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