AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT 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 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT +472%

5.196 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Apr 2017

Navi

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

32bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

6

-

1408

Shading Units

384

88

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Lexa

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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