Radeon RX 540 and Maxwell GPU Surface Book - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540
Maxwell GPU Surface Book
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Surface Book
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
October 2015
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
993 MHz
Core clock speed
-
954 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
39.01
-
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
-
DirectX
12.0
12 (FL 11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
5.0
-
FreeSync
+
-
Optimus
-
+