AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

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AMD Radeon 540

AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235X 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 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +224%

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 235X OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

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Radeon R5 235X OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Dec 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

32bit

Memory Bus

64bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

2

-

384

Shading Units

160

24

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

18W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Caicos

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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