Radeon 520 and Radeon RX 540X - video card comparison
Radeon 520
Radeon RX 540X
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Oland
Polaris 12
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
March 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
1030 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
659.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
512
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
20.60
35.97
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2250 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12.0
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+