Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 540
Radeon RX 470
8339
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon RX 470
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2016
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
926 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,940 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
512
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
154.4
39.01
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6600 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
FreeSync
+
+