AMD Radeon RX 560DX vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560DX

AMD Radeon 540

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

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560DX +131%

2.106 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Apr 2017

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

32bit

96.00GB/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)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

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

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Lexa

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

123 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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