AMD Radeon 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 540X Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • 358.5x more texture fill rate: 39.00 GTexel/s vs 108.8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 5448 MHz
  • 29.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1349 vs 46
  • 26.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3355 vs 125.7
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 April 2018 vs 23 November 2014
Core clock speed 1124 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate 39.00 GTexel/s vs 108.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 5448 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1349 vs 46
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355 vs 125.7

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

  • 4x more pipelines: 2048 vs 512
  • 2785.6x better floating-point performance: 3,482 gflops vs 1.25 TFLOPs
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2852 vs 1349
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7037 vs 3355
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 2048 vs 512
Floating-point performance 3,482 gflops vs 1.25 TFLOPs
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2852 vs 1349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7037 vs 3355

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 540X Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1349
2852
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1349
46
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3355
7037
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3355
125.7
Name AMD Radeon 540X Mobile AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1349 2852
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1349 46
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355 7037
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355 125.7
Geekbench - OpenCL 8335
PassMark - G2D Mark 278
PassMark - G3D Mark 1438
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 71.778
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1285.141
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.839
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 75.347
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 321.767

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Lexa Amethyst
Design Radeon 500X Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 3 April 2018 23 November 2014
Place in performance rating 937 938
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1219 MHz
Compute units 8
Core clock speed 1124 MHz 850 MHz
Floating-point performance 1.25 TFLOPs 3,482 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 512 2048
Pixel fill rate 9.80 GP/s
Render output units 8
Stream Processors 512
Texture fill rate 39.00 GTexel/s 108.8 GTexel / s
Texture Units 32
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 2,200 million 5,000 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 MXM-B (3.0)

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 48 GB/s 174.3 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz 5448 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support