Radeon RX 540 and GeForce GTX 260 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs GeForce GTX 260
Radeon RX 540
2872
GeForce GTX 260
1260
Radeon RX 540
GeForce GTX 260
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
GT200
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
June 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
576 MHz
CUDA cores
-
192
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
476.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
192
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
182 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
39.01
36.9 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
896 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
448 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
999 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
111.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Dual Link DVIHDTV
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
12.0
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
FreeSync
+
-