Radeon 540X vs ATI FirePro V7800P

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated706
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data5.19
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameCypressLexa
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date16 May 2011 (13 years ago)5 September 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,249 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1440512
Core clock speed700 MHz980 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1046 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)138 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate50.4033.47
Floating-point processing power2.016 TFLOPS1.071 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs7232

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s48 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 May 2011 5 September 2018
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 138 Watt 50 Watt

Radeon 540X has an age advantage of 7 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 176% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V7800P and Radeon 540X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro V7800P is a workstation card while Radeon 540X is a notebook one.


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