Radeon RX 540X and Radeon RX 5700 XT - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540X
Radeon RX 5700 XT
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Navi / RDNA (2019−2020)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Navi 10
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2018
July 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1905 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1605 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
10,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
225 Watt
Texture fill rate
35.97
304.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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
+
FreeSync
+
-
Multi Monitor
-
+
VR Ready
-
+