AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition 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, 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 GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 900 MHz
1354.2x more texture fill rate: 39.00 GTexel/s vs 28.8 GTexel / s
Around 33% higher pipelines: 512 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 5016 MHz

Launch date	3 April 2018 vs 12 July 2012
Core clock speed	1124 MHz vs 900 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.00 GTexel/s vs 28.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 5016 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

553x better floating-point performance: 691.2 gflops vs 1.25 TFLOPs
Around 11% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 50 Watt

Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops vs 1.25 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

Name	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition
Geekbench - OpenCL	8954
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		11.049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		342.738
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.945
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		14.549
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		22.128
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2550
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1938
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3926
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		43.2
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		31.3
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		70.1

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Kepler
Code name	Lexa	GK107
Design	Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2018	12 July 2012
Place in performance rating	1524	1527
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1219 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1124 MHz	900 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.25 TFLOPs	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512	384
Pixel fill rate	19.50 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512
Texture fill rate	39.00 GTexel/s	28.8 GTexel / s
Texture Units	32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	45 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
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	80.26 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	5016 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	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