
Radeon RX 540 and Radeon R5 340X OEM - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540
Radeon R5 340X OEM
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Oland
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
May 2015
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
-
900 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
806.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
21.60
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
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
+
-