GPU Comparison

A

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

A

AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 6950 XT

CORE STATE Navi 21

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2310 MHz

TDP 335 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

5,996

175,410

geekbench_vulkan

9,162

164,748

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

4,235

geekbench_metal

N/A

222,653

passmark_directx_10

N/A

164

passmark_directx_11

N/A

300

passmark_directx_12

N/A

114

passmark_directx_9

N/A

303

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,063

passmark_g3d

N/A

28,070

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

14,199

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

540

RX 6950 XT

Core Specs

Shading Units

384

5,120 +1233.3%

Shaders

384

5,120 +1233.3%

TMUs

24

320 +1233.3%

ROPs

16

128 +700.0%

Compute Units

6

80 +1233.3%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1860 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2310 MHz

GPU Clock

1183 MHz

—

Game Clock

—

2100 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz 6 Gbps effective

2250 MHz 18 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1024 MB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,024

16,384 +1500.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

32 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

24.00 GB/s

576.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB per Array

L2 Cache

512 KB

4 MB

L3 Cache

—

128 MB

L0 Cache

—

32 KB per WGP

Performance

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

295.7 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

908.5 GFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

56.78 GFLOPS (1:16)

1,478.4 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

908.5 GFLOPS (1:1)

47.31 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

80

Power

TDP

50 W

335 W

TDP (W)

50

335 +570.0%

Suggested PSU

250 W

700 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

RDNA 2.0

GPU Name

Lexa

Navi 21

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

Navi II (RX 6000)

Process Size

14 nm

7 nm

Transistors

2,200 million

26,800 million

Die Size

103 mm²

520 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

21.4M / mm²

51.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

2.1

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Single-slot

Triple-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

120 mm 4.7 inches

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

1,099 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

Navi

Successor

Vega

Navi III

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