Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon 540
Radeon HD 5850
2048
Radeon 540
1420
Radeon HD 5850
Radeon 540
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Cypress
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
1183 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,088.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1440
384
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
52.20
28.39
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
32 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
24 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3