AMD Radeon RX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Compare AMD Radeon RX 540 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

352 points

640 points

81% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

9 FPS

14 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

10 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

8 FPS

10 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

8 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10620 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10197 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9390 points

0.69% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9326 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9443 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1219 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

937 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1219 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

96 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

19.5 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

16.61 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

39.01 Gigatexels/s

56% significantly higher texture rate

24.91 Gigatexels/s

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

359th of 586

302nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 540 vs GeForce MX250 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce MX250 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 540 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 540 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 540 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce MX250 over the Radeon RX 540.