Radeon RX 540 and Radeon RX 6500M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs Radeon RX 6500M
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon RX 6500M
8095
Radeon RX 540
Radeon RX 6500M
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
RDNA 2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Navi 24
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
2191 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
6 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
153.6
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
288.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12.0
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
Vulkan
-
1.2
FreeSync
+
-