C51 and Radeon RX 540X - video card comparison

C51

Radeon RX 540X

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

C51

Polaris 12

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

-

March 2018

Interface

-

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

-

1219 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

-

2,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

512

Power consumption (TDP)

-

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

35.97

Memory type

-

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

-

4 GB

Memory bus width

-

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.06.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

FreeSync

-

+

PureVideo HD

VP1

-