Radeon RX 540 and Radeon RX 5700 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon RX 5700 XT
17129
Radeon RX 540
Radeon RX 5700 XT
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Navi / RDNA (2019−2020)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Navi 10
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
July 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1905 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1605 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
10,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
225 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
304.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12.0
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
-
+
FreeSync
+
-
Multi Monitor
-
+
VR Ready
-
+