Radeon RX 540 and GeForce GTX 555 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540

GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

GF114

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

May 2011

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

Core clock speed

736 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

847.9 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

1,950 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

288

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

150 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

35.33

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

3828 MHz

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

91.87 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

12.0

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

FreeSync