Radeon RX 540X and Radeon RX 5500M - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540X
Radeon RX 5500M
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Navi / RDNA (2019−2020)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Navi 14 / R19M-E85
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2018
September 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1645 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1327 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
6,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
85 Watt
Texture fill rate
35.97
144.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
+
-