AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

6016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070 +3452%

32.26 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce RTX 5070

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2025

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

32bit

Memory Bus

192bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

532.6GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

50

384

Shading Units

6400

24

TMUs

200

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

200

-

RT Cores

50

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

40 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

161.3 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

504.0 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.26 TFLOPS

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.26 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

504.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

220W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GB205

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GB205

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

4 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

103 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

10.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.8

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