AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8280E

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile and AMD Radeon HD 8280E 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8280E

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
6.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8385 vs 1210

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 April 2018 vs 23 April 2013
Core clock speed	1124 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	8385 vs 1210

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8280E

3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8280E

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

8385

1210

Name	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 8280E
Geekbench - OpenCL	8385	1210
PassMark - G3D Mark		256
PassMark - G2D Mark		81

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 8280E
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Lexa	Kalindi
Design	Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2018	23 April 2013
Place in performance rating	1546	1549
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1219 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1124 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.25 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512
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	15 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	1,178 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	IGP
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.5	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
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support