AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 vs AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 and AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 5

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 5

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 15% higher boost clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1219 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 3 April 2018
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1219 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Around 60% higher pipelines: 512 vs 320

Pipelines	512 vs 320

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 5
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 5	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	902
Geekbench - OpenCL		8663

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 5	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	GCN 4.0
Code name	Vega	Lexa
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	3 April 2018
Place in performance rating	1534	1535
Type	Laptop	Desktop, Laptop
Design		Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz	1219 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	320	512
Compute units		8
Core clock speed		1124 MHz
Floating-point performance		1.25 TFLOPs
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
Transistor count		2,200 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenGL		4.5
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
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