Radeon RX 540 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
GM206
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
November 2015
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
-
924 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
39.01
76.86
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12.0
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.1.126
FreeSync
+
-