AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient vs AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient and AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient

  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 50 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 50 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

  • 3.7x more core clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 21% higher boost clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 1011 MHz
Core clock speed 1124 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed 1219 MHz vs 1011 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Name AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 875
Geekbench - OpenCL 8385

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 GCN 4.0
Code name Raven Lexa
Launch date 23 April 2018 3 April 2018
Place in performance rating 1546 1547
Type Desktop Desktop, Laptop
Design Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation 4th Gen

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1011 MHz 1219 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 1124 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 4,940 million 2,200 million
Compute units 8
Floating-point performance 1.25 TFLOPs
Pipelines 512
Pixel fill rate 19.50 GP/s
Render output units 16
Stream Processors 512
Texture fill rate 39.00 GTexel/s
Texture Units 32

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 3.0 x8

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

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