Radeon RX 540 Mobile vs Radeon RX 480 Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 540 Mobile Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1219MHz vs 1077MHz)
Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)
Radeon RX 480 Mobile Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 540 Mobile
1248
Radeon RX 480 Mobile
+297%
4963
Graphics Card
Nov 2017
Release Date
Aug 2016
Mobility Radeon
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1124 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1219 MHz
Boost Clock
1077 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
36
512
Shading Units
2304
32
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
19.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
34.46 GPixel/s
39.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.1 GTexel/s
1248 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.963 TFLOPS
1248 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.963 TFLOPS
78.02 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
310.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Lexa
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
(215-0904018)
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
GCN 4.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
14 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.2 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
103 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
