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 R7 240
CORE STATE
Oland
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
780 MHz
TDP
30 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
540
R7 240
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
320
-16.7%
Shaders
384
320
-16.7%
TMUs
24
20
-16.7%
ROPs
16
8
-50.0%
Compute Units
6
5
-16.7%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
730 MHz
Boost Clock
—
780 MHz
GPU Clock
1183 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
6 Gbps effective
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
1024 MB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
1,024
2,048
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
32 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
24.00 GB/s
28.80 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
256 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
6.240 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
28.39 GTexel/s
15.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
908.5 GFLOPS
499.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
56.78 GFLOPS (1:16)
—
FP16 (TFLOPS)
908.5 GFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
50 W
30 W
TDP (W)
50
30
-40.0%
Suggested PSU
250 W
200 W
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 1.0
GPU Name
Lexa
Oland
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
Volcanic Islands
(R7 200)
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2,200 million
950 million
Die Size
103 mm²
77 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
21.4M / mm²
12.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
OpenCL
2.1
2.1 (1.2)
Shader Model
6.7
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Single-slot
Single-slot
Length
—
168 mm
6.6 inches
Height
—
69 mm
2.7 inches
Outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x VGA
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
—
69 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
Sea Islands
Successor
Vega
Pirate Islands