AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

AMD Radeon 540 AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 1 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +268%

3.344 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

384bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

28

384

Shading Units

1792

24

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Tahiti

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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