Radeon 540X vs ATI Mobility FireGL 9000

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated706
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data5.19
ArchitectureRage 7 (2001−2006)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameM9Lexa
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date2002 (22 years ago)5 September 2018 (6 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 cores5512
Core clock speed250 MHz980 MHz
Boost clock speed250 MHz1046 MHz
Number of transistors36 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rate1.00033.47
Floating-point processing powerno data1.071 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs432

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 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 amount64 MB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed200 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s48 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.112 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL1.44.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 14 nm

Radeon 540X has a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 971.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility FireGL 9000 and Radeon 540X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility FireGL 9000 is a mobile workstation card while Radeon 540X is a mobile workstation one.


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ATI Mobility FireGL 9000
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