AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile and AMD Radeon HD 6540G2 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 7% higher pipelines: 512 vs 480
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	3 April 2018 vs 14 June 2011
Pipelines	512 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

Name	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 6540G2
Geekbench - OpenCL	8663
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		802
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1597

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 6540G2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Terascale 2
Code name	Lexa
Design	Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2018	14 June 2011
Place in performance rating	1532	1529
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1219 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1124 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.25 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	512	480
Pixel fill rate	19.50 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512
Texture fill rate	39.00 GTexel/s
Texture Units	32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12	11
OpenGL	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support