Radeon RX 540 and Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
October 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1200 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
512
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
No outputs
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DirectX
12.0
12_1
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
5.0
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FreeSync
+
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