Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Radeon RX 540 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Radeon RX 540 OEM

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Vega Raven Ridge

Cape Verde

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

October 2017

April 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1200 MHz

Core clock speed

1219 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

65 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

Shared memory

DirectX

12_1

12.0

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

Shader Model

5.0