AMD Radeon 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

VS

AMD Radeon 540

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

264 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +372%

0.908 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

0.192 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

32bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

3

-

384

Shading Units

120

24

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

45W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV630

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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