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
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 950
CORE STATE
GM206
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1188 MHz
TDP
90 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
geekbench_metal
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
540
GTX 950
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
768
+100.0%
Shaders
384
768
+100.0%
TMUs
24
48
+100.0%
ROPs
16
32
+100.0%
Compute Units
6
—
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1024 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1188 MHz
GPU Clock
1183 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
6 Gbps effective
1653 MHz
6.6 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
128 bit
Bandwidth
24.00 GB/s
105.8 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
38.02 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
28.39 GTexel/s
57.02 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
908.5 GFLOPS
1.825 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
56.78 GFLOPS (1:16)
57.02 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
908.5 GFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
50 W
90 W
TDP (W)
50
90
+80.0%
Suggested PSU
250 W
250 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Lexa
GM206
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
GeForce 900
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2,200 million
2,940 million
Die Size
103 mm²
228 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
21.4M / mm²
12.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
5.2
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Single-slot
Dual-slot
Length
—
202 mm
8 inches
Outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
159 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
GeForce 700
Successor
Vega
GeForce 10