Radeon RX 540 OEM and Radeon RX 6900 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540 OEM

Radeon RX 6900

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Cape Verde

Navi 21

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2105 MHz

Core clock speed

1219 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

23,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

4608

Power consumption (TDP)

65 Watt

255 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

606.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

16 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

512.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

HDMI

DirectX

12.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

1.2