UHD Graphics G1 vs Radeon 540X

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking704not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.14no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Generation 11.0 (2019−2021)
GPU code nameLexaIce Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 September 2018 (6 years ago)29 May 2019 (5 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 cores512256
Core clock speed980 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1046 MHz900 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate33.4714.40
Floating-point processing power1.071 TFLOPS0.4608 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs3216

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x1
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth48 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.97

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 September 2018 29 May 2019
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

UHD Graphics G1 has an age advantage of 8 months, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 540X and UHD Graphics G1. We've got no test results to judge.


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