Radeon RX 540 OEM and Radeon RX 580 2048SP - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540 OEM

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Cape Verde

Polaris 20

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

October 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1284 MHz

Core clock speed

1219 MHz

1168 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

65 Watt

150 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

164.4

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

7000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12.0

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131