Radeon RX 540 and GeForce GT 240 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs GeForce GT 240
Radeon RX 540
2872
GeForce GT 240
525
Radeon RX 540
GeForce GT 240
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
GT215
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
November 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
257.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
69 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105C C
Texture fill rate
39.01
17.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB or 1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
54.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
DVIVGAHDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12.0
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.2
Shader Model
5.0
4.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
FreeSync
+
-