AMD Radeon Vega 10 vs AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 10 and AMD Radeon 540X Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, 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 Vega 10

  • Around 15% higher boost clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1219 MHz
  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1553 vs 1445
  • Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 362 vs 280
  • Around 15% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9495 vs 8246
  • 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3402 vs 1349
  • 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3402 vs 1349
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1400 MHz vs 1219 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1553 vs 1445
PassMark - G2D Mark 362 vs 280
Geekbench - OpenCL 9495 vs 8246
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3402 vs 1349
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3402 vs 1349

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • 5x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3100 vs 3082
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3355 vs 3235
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3100 vs 3082
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3355 vs 3235
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 April 2018 vs 26 October 2017
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3100 vs 3082
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355 vs 3235
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3100 vs 3082
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355 vs 3235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 10
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1553
1445
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
362
280
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
9495
8246
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3082
3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3402
1349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3235
3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3082
3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3402
1349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3235
3355
Name AMD Radeon Vega 10 AMD Radeon 540X Mobile
PassMark - G3D Mark 1553 1445
PassMark - G2D Mark 362 280
Geekbench - OpenCL 9495 8246
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 12.526
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 357.982
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.218
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 37.275
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 155.274
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3082 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3402 1349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3235 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3082 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3402 1349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3235 3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 797

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Vega 10 AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

Essentials

Architecture Vega GCN 4.0
Code name Vega Raven Ridge Lexa
Launch date 26 October 2017 3 April 2018
Place in performance rating 940 941
Type Laptop Desktop, Laptop
Design Radeon 500X Series
GCN generation 4th Gen

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1400 MHz 1219 MHz
Compute units 8
Core clock speed 1124 MHz
Floating-point performance 1.25 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm
Pipelines 512
Pixel fill rate 9.80 GP/s
Render output units 8
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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz 6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 48 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit
Memory type GDDR5

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support