AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 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, 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

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 9 month(s) later
9.4x more core clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 120 MHz
4875x more texture fill rate: 39.00 GTexel/s vs 8 GTexel / s
16x more pipelines: 512 vs 32
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
3.8x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Launch date	3 April 2018 vs 4 June 2008
Core clock speed	1124 MHz vs 120 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.00 GTexel/s vs 8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 32
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

64x better floating-point performance: 80 gflops vs 1.25 TFLOPs
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 50 Watt

Floating-point performance	80 gflops vs 1.25 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

Name	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Geekbench - OpenCL	8663
PassMark - G3D Mark		140
PassMark - G2D Mark		28
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1140
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1679

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Tesla
Code name	Lexa	G96
Design	Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2018	4 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1535	1533
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1219 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1124 MHz	120 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.25 TFLOPs	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	512	32
Pixel fill rate	19.50 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512
Texture fill rate	39.00 GTexel/s	8 GTexel / s
Texture Units	32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	314 million
CUDA cores		32
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-II
Laptop size		medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
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
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0