AMD Radeon RX 470D vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470D

AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D 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 RX 470D 's Advantages

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470D +375%

4.322 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Apr 2017

Arctic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

32bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

6

-

1792

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

135.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

4.322 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

4.322 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

270.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Lexa

Polaris 10 PROD

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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