AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

VS

AMD Radeon 540

AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D +375%

4.322 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2016

Polaris

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/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

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

232 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

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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