GeForce RTX 5070 vs Radeon 540

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking719not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.10no data
Power efficiency4.92no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameLexaGB205
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 April 2017 (7 years ago)2025
Launch price (MSRP)$79 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores3846400
Core clock speed1183 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt220 Watt
Texture fill rate28.39504.0
Floating-point processing power0.9085 TFLOPS32.26 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs24200
Tensor Coresno data200
Ray Tracing Coresno data50

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 3.0 x8PCIe 5.0 x16
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount1 GB12 GB
Memory bus width32 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth24 GB/s120.0 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DisplayPort 1.4a1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-9.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 220 Watt

Radeon 540 has 340% lower power consumption.

RTX 5070, on the other hand, has a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 540 and GeForce RTX 5070. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon 540
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