AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 315 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +1917%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce 315 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce 315 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Feb 2011

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

32bit

Memory Bus

64bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

384

Shading Units

16

24

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

33W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GT218

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GT218-300-B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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