Radeon RX 540 and Radeon Vega 7 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540

Radeon Vega 7

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

Cezanne

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

April 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

1900 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

9,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

448

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

45 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

53.20

Memory type

GDDR5

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

128 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

DirectX

12.0

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.4

Vulkan

-

1.2

FreeSync

+

-