AMD Radeon RX 560 XT vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 560 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1226MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 XT +383%

4.394 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2017

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1074 MHz

Base Clock

-

1226 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

32bit

224.0GB/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

39.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

137.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

4.394 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

4.394 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

274.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

450 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 LE1

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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