Radeon 540: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon 540 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.27% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
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Summary
AMD started Radeon 540 sales 20 April 2017 at a recommended price of $79. This is a GCN 4.0 architecture desktop card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 32 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 24 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 145 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 50 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon 540: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 760 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.10 | |
| Power efficiency | 5.26 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 (2016−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Lexa | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 20 April 2017 (8 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $79 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
Radeon 540's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon 540's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 384 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 1183 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 1124 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 2,200 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 28.39 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.9085 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 24 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 96 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon 540 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | |
| Length | 145 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon 540: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 32 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1500 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 24 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon 540. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DisplayPort 1.4a |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Radeon 540, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon 540. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon 540 is GeForce GT 740, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon 540:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon 540 according to our statistics.
