Radeon 540X vs ATI Mobility 128 M3

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated758
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data5.87
Architectureno dataGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameM3Lexa
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 February 2000 (26 years ago)5 September 2018 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data512
Core clock speedno data980 MHz
Boost clock speed105 MHz1046 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,200 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data33.47
Floating-point processing powerno data1.071 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data32
L1 Cacheno data128 KB
L2 Cacheno data512 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 MB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed105 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data48 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDDR12 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 February 2000 5 September 2018
Maximum RAM amount 8 MB 2 GB

Radeon 540X has an age advantage of 18 years, and a 25500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Mobility 128 M3 and Radeon 540X. We've got no test results to judge.

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