Radeon RX 540 and Radeon 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs Radeon 520
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon 520
811
Radeon RX 540
Radeon 520
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Oland
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
320
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
20.60
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12.0
12.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
-
+
FreeSync
+
-