AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 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 550 's Advantages

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 +33%

1.211 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2017

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

32bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

6

-

512

Shading Units

384

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Lexa

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

103 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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