Spectre and Radeon RX 540X - video card comparison

Spectre

Radeon RX 540X

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Spectre

Polaris 12

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

March 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

2,410 million

2,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

35.97

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

2.1

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.2.131

FreeSync