Radeon RX 540 and Radeon HD 8650M - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540

Radeon HD 8650M

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

March 2017

January 2013

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

Core clock speed

650 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

900 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

384

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

4500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12.0

11.1

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

FreeSync