AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

AMD Radeon 540

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 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 5 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 +160%

2.368 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

20

-

384

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

Curacao

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

212 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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