Radeon HD 8970M and Radeon 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs Radeon 540
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
Radeon 540
1420
Radeon HD 8970M
Radeon 540
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Neptune
Lexa
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2013
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1183 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
384
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
28.39
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
32 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
153.6 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