AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

AMD Radeon 540

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 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 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

4736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +2504%

23.65 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2022

Polaris

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1860 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

32bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

80

-

384

Shading Units

5120

24

TMUs

320

16

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

335W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Navi 21

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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