GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon 540
CORE STATE
Lexa
VRAM
1024 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
32 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
VS
RADEON
Radeon HD 6950
CORE STATE
Cayman
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
200 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
TeraScale 3
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
540
HD 6950
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
1,408
+266.7%
Shaders
384
1,408
+266.7%
TMUs
24
88
+266.7%
ROPs
16
32
+100.0%
Compute Units
6
22
+266.7%
Clocks
GPU Clock
1183 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
6 Gbps effective
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
1024 MB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
1,024
2,048
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
32 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
24.00 GB/s
160.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
28.39 GTexel/s
70.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
908.5 GFLOPS
2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
56.78 GFLOPS (1:16)
563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
908.5 GFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
50 W
200 W
TDP (W)
50
200
+300.0%
Suggested PSU
250 W
550 W
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TeraScale 3
GPU Name
Lexa
Cayman
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
Process Size
14 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2,200 million
2,640 million
Die Size
103 mm²
389 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
21.4M / mm²
6.8M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Shader Model
6.7
5.0
Physical
Slot Width
Single-slot
Dual-slot
Length
—
286 mm
11.3 inches
Height
—
126 mm
5 inches
Outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
299 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
Evergreen
Successor
Vega
Southern Islands