AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

VS

AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile AMD Radeon RX 6500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 97% (2400MHz vs 1219MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500M +293%

4.915 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

VS

Radeon RX 6500M

Graphics Card

Nov 2017

Release Date

Jan 2022

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

2000 MHz

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

16

512

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.6 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.830 TFLOPS

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.915 TFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Navi 24

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XM

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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