AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL vs AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL and AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 1280 vs 512
  • 2156.7x better floating-point performance: 2,588 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 96% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3632 vs 1857
  • Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 481 vs 368
  • 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 19603 vs 9416
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 February 2018 vs 18 April 2017
Pipelines 1280 vs 512
Floating-point performance 2,588 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3632 vs 1857
PassMark - G2D Mark 481 vs 368
Geekbench - OpenCL 19603 vs 9416

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

  • Around 31% higher core clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 931 MHz
  • Around 21% higher boost clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 1011 MHz
  • 482.3x more texture fill rate: 39.01 GTexel/s vs 80.88 GTexel / s
  • 4.3x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • Around 11% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2296 vs 2070
  • Around 11% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2296 vs 2070
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1219 MHz vs 931 MHz
Boost clock speed 1219 MHz vs 1011 MHz
Texture fill rate 39.01 GTexel/s vs 80.88 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2296 vs 2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2296 vs 2070

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3632
1857
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
481
368
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
19603
9416
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2070
2296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2070
2296
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 3632 1857
PassMark - G2D Mark 481 368
Geekbench - OpenCL 19603 9416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 58.971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1235.247
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.134
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 75.289
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 252.311
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6318
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2070 2296
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1514
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6318
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2070 2296
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1514
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2091

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Polaris 22 Cape Verde
Launch date 1 February 2018 18 April 2017
Place in performance rating 622 623
Type Laptop Laptop
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 3rd Gen

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1011 MHz 1219 MHz
Core clock speed 931 MHz 1219 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,588 gflops 1.2 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1280 512
Texture fill rate 80.88 GTexel / s 39.01 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 65 Watt
Compute units 8
Pixel fill rate 19.50 GP/s
Render output units 16
Stream Processors 512
Texture Units 32
Transistor count 1,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
OpenCL 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 204.8 GB / s 96 GB/s
Memory bus width 1024 Bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz 6000 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
Enduro
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)