Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient vs RX 540 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameCape VerdeRaven
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date19 April 2017 (7 years ago)23 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 cores512384
Core clock speed1219 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1011 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate39.0124.26
Floating-point processing powerno data0.7764 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs3224

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 x16IGP
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed6000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth96 GB/sno 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 April 2017 23 April 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 15 Watt

Vega 6 Mobile Efficient has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 333.3% lower power consumption.

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AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM
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