AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

AMD Radeon 540

AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +542%

5.834 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2016

Polaris

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

36

-

384

Shading Units

2304

24

TMUs

144

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

40.51 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 XT (215-0876184)

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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