Radeon RX 540 and Radeon RX 570 X2 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540

Radeon RX 570 X2

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

Polaris 20

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

1206 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

180 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

154.4

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

8.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

268.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b

HDMI

DirectX

12.0

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.7

Vulkan

1.3

FreeSync