Radeon RX 540X and Radeon RX 7900 XTX - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540X

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

RDNA 3

GPU code name

Polaris 12

Navi 31 XTX

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2018

November 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

2270 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

2,200 million

57,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

355 Watt

Texture fill rate

35.97

959.6

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

24 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

20000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

960.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

2.0

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3

FreeSync