Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and Radeon 540X - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Radeon 540X

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Tahiti

Lexa

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

January 2012

August 2019

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

Core clock speed

925 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,842 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

2,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

512

Power consumption (TDP)

185 Watt

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

88.80

33.47

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131