Radeon R9 290X and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon RX 540
Radeon R9 290X
7648
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon R9 290X
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2013
March 2017
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1219 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
512
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
39.01
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
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
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
+
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-