
Radeon RX 540 OEM and Switch GPU - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540 OEM
Switch GPU
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
GM20B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
768 MHz
Core clock speed
1219 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
20 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
2,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
256
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
12.29
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
12.0
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.3
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.1.126