Radeon RX 540 and Radeon 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs Radeon 540
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon 540
1420
Radeon RX 540
Radeon 540
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Lexa
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1183 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
28.39
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
32 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
24 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
DirectX
12.0
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
Vulkan
-
1.3
FreeSync
+
-