Radeon RX 540 and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540
Radeon HD 8550M
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
November 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
850 MHz
Core clock speed
-
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
544.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
39.01
17.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12.0
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
FreeSync
+
-