Radeon RX 5600 XT and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon RX 540
Radeon RX 5600 XT
14074
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon RX 5600 XT
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Navi 10
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2020
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1750 MHz
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
1235 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
-
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
10,300 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
512
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
224.6
39.01
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288.0 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
FreeSync
-
+