Radeon RX 540X and A2 - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540X
A2
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
GA107
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2018
November 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1770 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
35.97
70.80
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
12.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
200.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2
FreeSync
+
-