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 RX 590
CORE STATE
Polaris 30
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1545 MHz
TDP
175 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2018
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
540
RX 590
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
2,304
+500.0%
Shaders
384
2,304
+500.0%
TMUs
24
144
+500.0%
ROPs
16
32
+100.0%
Compute Units
6
36
+500.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1469 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1545 MHz
GPU Clock
1183 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
6 Gbps effective
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
1024 MB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
1,024
8,192
+700.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
32 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
24.00 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
49.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
28.39 GTexel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
908.5 GFLOPS
7.119 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
56.78 GFLOPS (1:16)
445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
908.5 GFLOPS (1:1)
7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
50 W
175 W
TDP (W)
50
175
+250.0%
Suggested PSU
250 W
450 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Lexa
Polaris 30
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
Polaris
(RX 500)
Process Size
14 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2,200 million
5,700 million
Die Size
103 mm²
232 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries
Density
21.4M / mm²
24.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
6.7
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
Single-slot
Dual-slot
Length
—
241 mm
9.5 inches
Outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
279 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
Arctic Islands
Successor
Vega
Vega