Radeon RX 540X vs R7 M460

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking799not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameMesoPolaris 23
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 May 2016 (8 years ago)11 April 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 cores384512
Core clock speed1100 MHz1124 MHz
Boost clock speed1125 MHz1219 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rate27.0039.01
Floating-point processing power0.864 TFLOPS1.248 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2432

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s96 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.06.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 11 April 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

RX 540X has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 M460 and Radeon RX 540X. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R7 M460
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