Radeon R7 260 and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 260 vs Radeon RX 540
Radeon R7 260
2978
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon R7 260
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Bonaire
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2013
March 2017
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
1219 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,536 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
512
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
48.00
39.01
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1625 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
104 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.0
AppAcceleration
-
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
+
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-