Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Radeon RX 540

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

Vega

Polaris 12

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

January 2020

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

2100 MHz

1219 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

75 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

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12_1

12.0

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

FreeSync