Radeon R9 295X2 vs AMD Radeon 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
2432 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Lower TDP (50W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+531%
5733
AMD Radeon 540
908
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Apr 2017
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
32bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
6
2816
Shading Units
384
176
TMUs
24
64
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.39 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
908.5 GFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
908.5 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
56.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
50W
900 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Lexa
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
6.3
Shader Model
6.7
