AMD Radeon HD 6850M vs AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6850M AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

288 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1211MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850M

1.08 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile +14%

1.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M

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Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Apr 2018

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1124 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1211 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

8

800

Shading Units

512

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.38 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.75 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1240 GFLOPS

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1240 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

77.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

Polaris 23

Granville PRO

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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