Radeon RX 540 and Arc 7 A780 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540

Arc 7 A780

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Generation 12.7 (2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

DG2-512

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

2200 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

21,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

4096

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

563.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

17.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

559.6 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

12.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.6

Vulkan

-

1.3

FreeSync

+

-