Intel UHD Graphics 620 vs AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

Comparative analysis of Intel UHD Graphics 620 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 Intel UHD Graphics 620

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 4.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 65 Watt
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 4 GB
Launch date 1 September 2017 vs 18 April 2017
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 65 Watt
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 4 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

  • 4.1x more core clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 1150 MHz
  • 21.3x more pipelines: 512 vs 24
  • Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2016 vs 1042
  • Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 341 vs 241
  • 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9416 vs 4592
  • 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2296 vs 878
  • 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2296 vs 878
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1219 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed 1219 MHz vs 1150 MHz
Pipelines 512 vs 24
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2016 vs 1042
PassMark - G2D Mark 341 vs 241
Geekbench - OpenCL 9416 vs 4592
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2296 vs 878
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2296 vs 878

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel UHD Graphics 620
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1042
2016
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
241
341
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
4592
9416
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
878
2296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
878
2296
Name Intel UHD Graphics 620 AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 1042 2016
PassMark - G2D Mark 241 341
Geekbench - OpenCL 4592 9416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 27.062
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 273.504
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.777
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 19.939
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 31.881
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 878 2296
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2227
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 878 2296
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2227
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 62

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel UHD Graphics 620 AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Generation 9.5 GCN 3.0
Code name Kaby Lake GT2 Cape Verde
Launch date 1 September 2017 18 April 2017
Place in performance rating 1380 638
Type Laptop Laptop
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 3rd Gen

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1150 MHz 1219 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 1219 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 24 512
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 65 Watt
Transistor count 189 million 1,500 million
Compute units 8
Floating-point performance 1.2 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate 19.50 GP/s
Render output units 16
Stream Processors 512
Texture fill rate 39.01 GTexel/s
Texture Units 32

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
OpenCL 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 4 GB
Memory bus width 64 / 128 Bit 128 bit
Memory type LPDDR3 / DDR4 GDDR5
Shared memory 1
Memory bandwidth 96 GB/s
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz

Technologies

Quick Sync
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)