Radeon RX 540 and Radeon HD 5850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs Radeon HD 5850
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon HD 5850
2048
Radeon RX 540
Radeon HD 5850
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Cypress
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
September 2009
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
2,088.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1440
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
151 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
52.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12.0
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
FreeSync
+
-