AMD Radeon 540 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

AMD Radeon 540

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

3712 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +1343%

13.11 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2017

Polaris

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

32bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

64

-

384

Shading Units

4096

24

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Vega 10

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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