AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM +117%

1.971 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

32bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

6

-

896

Shading Units

384

56

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Lexa

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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