AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon 540

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +47%

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM

0.614 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2013

Polaris

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

6

-

384

Shading Units

384

24

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

38.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde LE

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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