AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

AMD Radeon 540

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +434%

4.849 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon R9 290

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

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

512bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

40

-

384

Shading Units

2560

24

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

275W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Hawaii

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

438 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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