Radeon RX 540 and Radeon R7 250 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs Radeon R7 250
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon R7 250
1100
Radeon RX 540
Radeon R7 250
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Oland XT
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
October 2013
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1050 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
716.8 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
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
25.20
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
72 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12.0
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
AppAcceleration
-
+
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
+
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-