Radeon RX 550 and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon RX 540
Radeon RX 550
2809
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon RX 550
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Lexa
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2017
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1183 MHz
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
1100 MHz
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Floating-point performance
1,211 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
512
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.86
39.01
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
FreeSync
-
+