Radeon 540 and Radeon HD 3850 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 540 vs Radeon HD 3850

Radeon 540

1420

Radeon HD 3850

404

Radeon 540

Radeon HD 3850

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

Lexa

RV670

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

November 2007

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1124 MHz

Core clock speed

1183 MHz

668 MHz

Floating-point performance

427.5 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

2,200 million

666 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

320

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.39

10.69

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

Memory bus width

32 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6 GB/s

1660 MHz

Memory bandwidth

24 GB/s

53.12 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 (12_0)

10.1 (10_1)

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

6.7

4.1

Vulkan

1.3

N/A