Radeon RX 540 and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs Radeon 8500
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon 8500
6
Radeon RX 540
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
R200
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
August 2001
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
-
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
2.200
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12.0
8.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.4
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
-
N/A
FreeSync
+
-