Radeon 540 vs GRID K340

Place in the ranking	816	773
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.02	0.10
Power efficiency	0.98	5.34
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	GK107	Lexa
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	23 July 2013 (12 years ago)	20 April 2017 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,299	$79

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Radeon 540 has 400% better value for money than GRID K340.

Performance to price scatter graph

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 cores	384 ×4	384
Core clock speed	950 MHz	1183 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1124 MHz
Number of transistors	1,270 million	2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	30.40 ×4	28.39
Floating-point processing power	0.7296 TFLOPS ×4	0.9085 TFLOPS
ROPs	8 ×4	16
TMUs	32 ×4	24
L1 Cache	32 KB	96 KB
L2 Cache	128 KB	512 KB

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	267 mm	145 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB ×4	1 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit ×4	32 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB/s ×4	24 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.3
CUDA	3.0	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.87	3.46
Recency	23 July 2013	20 April 2017
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	50 Watt

Radeon 540 has a 20.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 350% lower power consumption.

The Radeon 540 is our recommended choice as it beats the GRID K340 in performance tests.

Be aware that GRID K340 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon 540 is a desktop one.