AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

AMD Radeon 540

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 6 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 115W)

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X +117%

1.971 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/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

17.60 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

115W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Bonaire

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

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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