Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1905MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
2176 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+974%
9754
AMD Radeon 540
908
Graphics Card
Jul 2019
Release Date
Apr 2017
Navi
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1605 MHz
Base Clock
-
1905 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
32bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
6
2560
Shading Units
384
160
TMUs
24
64
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
121.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
304.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.39 GTexel/s
19.51 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
908.5 GFLOPS
9.754 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
908.5 GFLOPS
609.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
56.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
50W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Lexa
Navi 10 XT
(215-0917210)
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
7 nm
Process Size
14 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.5
Shader Model
6.7
