AMD Radeon 540 vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

VS

AMD Radeon 540

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 130W)

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.16GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

Score

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

690 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

32bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

44.16GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

-

24

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.900 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.900 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV570

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

R500

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.7

Shader Model

3.0

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