Radeon R9 270X and Radeon 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 270X vs Radeon 540
Radeon R9 270X
5036
Radeon 540
1420
Radeon R9 270X
Radeon 540
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Curacao XT
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
April 2017
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2 x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1050 MHz
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1183 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,688 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)
180 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.00
28.39
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
32 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
179.2 GB/s
24 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
+
1.3
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-