AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 880M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1211MHz vs 993MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 122W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

1.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 880M +145%

3.05 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 880M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Mar 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

954 MHz

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

993 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.78 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

127.1 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.050 TFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

127.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

GK104

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

N15E-GX-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

122W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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