ATI Radeon HD 4860 vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4860

AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4860

0.896 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540 +1%

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Apr 2017

Radeon R700

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

32bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

6

-

640

Shading Units

384

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

896.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

179.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV790

GPU Name

Lexa

RV790 GT

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.959 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

282 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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