Radeon RX 540 Mobile vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 540 Mobile Advantages
Released 7 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1219MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Advantages
288 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 540 Mobile
+11%
1248
Mobility Radeon HD 5870
1120
Graphics Card
Nov 2017
Release Date
Jan 2010
Mobility Radeon
Generation
Manhattan
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1124 MHz
Base Clock
-
1219 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
10
512
Shading Units
800
32
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
19.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.20 GPixel/s
39.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.00 GTexel/s
1248 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1248 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1120 GFLOPS
78.02 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
50W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Lexa
GPU Name
Broadway
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
(215-0904018)
GPU Variant
Broadway XT
(216-0769008)
(216-0769008)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.2 billion
Transistors
1.04 billion
103 mm²
Die Size
166 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
