Radeon RX 480 and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 540
Radeon RX 480
8883
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon RX 480
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2016
March 2017
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
1219 MHz
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
512
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
182.3
39.01
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
2.0
-
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12.0
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
+
FRTC
1
-
HD3D
n/a
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
+
-