AMD Radeon RX 580X vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580X

AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X 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 580X 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580X +580%

6.175 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Apr 2017

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

32bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

6

-

2304

Shading Units

384

144

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Lexa

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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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