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Radeon R9 380X and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 380X vs Radeon RX 540

Radeon R9 380X
6380
Radeon RX 540
2872

Radeon R9 380X

Radeon RX 540


Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name
Antigua
Polaris 12

Market segment
Desktop
Laptop

Release date
November 2015
March 2017

Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
​2 x 6-pin
1x 6-pin

Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-

Boost clock speed
970 MHz
1219 MHz

Compute units
32
-

Floating-point performance
3,973 gflops
1,248 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm

Number of transistors
5,000 million
1,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
512

Power consumption (TDP)
190 Watt
75 Watt

Texture fill rate
124.2
39.01

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
970 MHz
6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth
182.4 GB/s
96 GB/s

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
-
-

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs

Eyefinity
1
-

Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-

HDMI
+
-

DisplayPort support
+
-

DirectX
DirectX® 12
12.0

Mantle
+
-

OpenCL
2.0
1.2

OpenGL
4.5
4.6

Shader Model
6.3
5.0

Vulkan
+
-

AppAcceleration
-
-

CrossFire
1
-

DDMA audio
+
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
+

FRTC
1
-

HD3D
+
-

LiquidVR
1
-

PowerTune
+
-

TrueAudio
+
-

VCE
+
-

ZeroCore
+
-