AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R4 Graphics

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile and AMD Radeon R4 Graphics 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, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 41% higher core clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 6093.8x more texture fill rate: 39.00 GTexel/s vs 6.4 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 512 vs 128
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
Launch date 3 April 2018 vs 11 June 2014
Core clock speed 1124 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate 39.00 GTexel/s vs 6.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 512 vs 128
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R4 Graphics

  • 163.8x better floating-point performance: 204.8 gflops vs 1.25 TFLOPs
  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 50 Watt
Specifications (specs)
Floating-point performance 204.8 gflops vs 1.25 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 8386 vs 8385

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R4 Graphics

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
8385
8386
Name AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile AMD Radeon R4 Graphics
Geekbench - OpenCL 8385 8386
PassMark - G3D Mark 336
PassMark - G2D Mark 99
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 4.721
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 107.613
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.445
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 10.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 13.097
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 701
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1811
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 701
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1811

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile AMD Radeon R4 Graphics

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 2.0
Code name Lexa Beema
Design Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 3 April 2018 11 June 2014
Place in performance rating 1547 1549
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1219 MHz
Compute units 8
Core clock speed 1124 MHz 800 MHz
Floating-point performance 1.25 TFLOPs 204.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 512 128
Pixel fill rate 19.50 GP/s
Render output units 16
Stream Processors 512
Texture fill rate 39.00 GTexel/s 6.4 GTexel / s
Texture Units 32
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 2,200 million 930 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 System Shared

Technologies

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