AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Lexa Cypress
GPU variant Lexa PRO (215-0904018) Cypress PRO (215-0735043)
Architecture GCN 4.0 TeraScale 2
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Manufacturing process 14 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 2,200 million 2,154 million
Die size 103 mm² 334 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Nov 11th, 2017
Generation Mobility Radeon (RX M500)
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
Predecessor Crystal System

Clocks

Base clock 1124 MHz
Boost clock 1219 MHz
Memory clock 1500 MHz 6 Gbps effective 1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective
GPU clock 725 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 2 GB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 96.00 GB/s 128.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 512 1440
TMUs 32 72
ROPs 16 32
Compute units 8 18
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 512 KB 512 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 19.50 GPixel/s 23.20 GPixel/s
Texture rate 39.01 GTexel/s 52.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 1,248 GFLOPS (1:1)
FP32 (float) performance 1,248 GFLOPS 2.088 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 78.02 GFLOPS (1:16) 417.6 GFLOPS (1:5)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width IGP Dual-slot
TDP 50 W 151 W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort
Power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Length 241 mm 9.5 inches
Suggested PSU 450 W
Board number C002-37

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
Vulkan 1.2
Shader model 6.4 5.0

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date Sep 30th, 2009
Generation Evergreen
Production End-of-life
Launch price 299 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 101 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R700
Successor Northern Islands

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