Radeon HD 7870 and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs Radeon RX 540
Radeon HD 7870
4779
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon HD 7870
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2012
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
-
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
512
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
39.01
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
FreeSync
-
+