AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon HD 7790

VS

AMD Radeon 540

AMD Radeon HD 7790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 85W)

AMD Radeon HD 7790 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7790 +97%

1.792 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon HD 7790

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2013

Polaris

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

14

-

384

Shading Units

896

24

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

112.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

85W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Bonaire

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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