GPU Comparison

AMD
RADEON

AMD Radeon 540

CORE STATE Lexa
VRAM 1024 MB
CLOCK SPEED
TDP 50 W
BUS WIDTH 32 bit
ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0
nm
PROCESS 14 nm
LAUNCH DATE 2017
VS
AMD
RADEON

Radeon HD 6950

CORE STATE Cayman
VRAM 2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
TDP 200 W
BUS WIDTH 256 bit
ARCHITECTURE TeraScale 3
nm
PROCESS 40 nm
LAUNCH DATE 2010

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl
5,996
6,210
geekbench_vulkan
9,162
N/A

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
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