Radeon RX 540 and GRID K520Q - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540

GRID K520Q

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

GK104

Market segment

Laptop

Workstation

Release date

March 2017

July 2014

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

-

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

745 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

2x 2,448 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

3,540 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

225 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

95.36

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

160.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

DirectX

12.0

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

-

1.1.126

FreeSync

+

-