Radeon RX 540 and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs Radeon RX 590
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon RX 590
9695
Radeon RX 540
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Polaris 30
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
222.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12.0
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
FreeSync
+
+