AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

AMD Radeon VII AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 VII 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1750MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon VII +1380%

13.44 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon VII

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Apr 2017

Vega II

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1400 MHz

Base Clock

-

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

32bit

1020GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

6

3840

Shading Units

384

240

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

112.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

420.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

26.88 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

13.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

3.360 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

Lexa

Vega 20 XT

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 5.1

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

295W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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