AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

VS

AMD Radeon 540

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT +691%

7.188 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2020

Polaris

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1130 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

32bit

Memory Bus

192bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

36

-

384

Shading Units

2304

24

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.6 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.38 TFLOPS

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.188 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

449.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Navi 10

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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