AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +448%

4.981 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GM204

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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