Radeon RX Vega 56 and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX Vega 56 vs Radeon RX 540
Radeon RX Vega 56
13659
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon RX Vega 56
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Vega
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2017
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1474 MHz
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
1138 MHz
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Floating-point performance
10,566 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
12,500 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
512
Power consumption (TDP)
210 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
329.5
39.01
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
409.6 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
409.6 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
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.125
-
FreeSync
-
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