Radeon RX 540 and GeForce GTX 745 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540

GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

GM107

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

February 2014

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

Core clock speed

1033 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

793.3 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

384

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

55 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

24.79

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

28.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

HDMI

DirectX

12.0

12 (11_0)

CUDA

5.0

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

1.1.126

FreeSync