
Radeon RX 540 and GeForce RTX 4090 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs GeForce RTX 4090
Radeon RX 540
2872
GeForce RTX 4090
39777
Radeon RX 540
GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
Polaris 12
AD102-300-A1
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
September 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
2520 MHz
Core clock speed
-
2235 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
76,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
16384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
450 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
1,290
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
24 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
21000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
1,008 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12.0
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.9
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
Vulkan
-
1.3
FreeSync
+
-