AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GRID K1

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile and NVIDIA GRID K1 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).

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

NVIDIA GRID K1

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 850 MHz
94.3x more texture fill rate: 39.00 GTexel/s vs 4x 13.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 130 Watt
3.4x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1782 MHz
4.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8954 vs 1976

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 April 2018 vs 18 March 2013
Core clock speed	1124 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.00 GTexel/s vs 4x 13.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 130 Watt
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 1782 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	8954 vs 1976

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K1

Around 50% higher pipelines: 4x 192 vs 512
1044.5x better floating-point performance: 4x 326.4 gflops vs 1.25 TFLOPs
4x more maximum memory size: 4x 4 GB vs 4 GB

Pipelines	4x 192 vs 512
Floating-point performance	4x 326.4 gflops vs 1.25 TFLOPs
Maximum memory size	4x 4 GB vs 4 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GRID K1

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

8954

1976

Name	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile	NVIDIA GRID K1
Geekbench - OpenCL	8954	1976
PassMark - G3D Mark		651
PassMark - G2D Mark		259
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		4.591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		169.864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.336
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		8.734
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		10.43
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1237
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		319
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1237
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		319

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile	NVIDIA GRID K1
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Kepler
Code name	Lexa	GK107
Design	Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2018	18 March 2013
Place in performance rating	1524	1526
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$4,140
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1219 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1124 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.25 TFLOPs	4x 326.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512	4x 192
Pixel fill rate	19.50 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512
Texture fill rate	39.00 GTexel/s	4x 13.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
Texture Units	32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	130 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	1,270 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	4x 28.51 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	4x 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	1782 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support