Radeon R9 290 and Radeon 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon 540
Radeon R9 290
8336
Radeon 540
1420
Radeon R9 290
Radeon 540
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
1183 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
384
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
28.39
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
32 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
24 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3