AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

AMD Radeon 540

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP +131%

2.106 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jul 2017

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

14

-

384

Shading Units

896

24

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

45W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

123 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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