AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon R9 285

VS

AMD Radeon 540

AMD Radeon R9 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285 +262%

3.29 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon R9 285

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

28

-

384

Shading Units

1792

24

TMUs

112

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

29.38 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.8 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.290 TFLOPS

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.290 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

205.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

190W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Tonga

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

2

AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD FirePro W4100

3

AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

4

AMD Radeon 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

5

AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM

6

AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM

7

AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 LE

8

AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200 X2 PCI

9

AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

10

AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

Related News

1

AMD's Thunderous Strike: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Scores Revealed for the First Time!

2

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

3

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

4

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

5

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

6

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

7

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

8

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

9

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

10

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market