Radeon HD 8870M and Radeon 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8870M vs Radeon 540
Radeon HD 8870M
1687
Radeon 540
1420
Radeon HD 8870M
Radeon 540
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Venus
Lexa
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
December 2012
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
775 MHz
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
1183 MHz
Floating-point performance
992.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
384
Power consumption (TDP)
-
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
31.00
28.39
Memory type
GDDR5, DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
32 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
24 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3