Radeon Pro V540 vs Pro V520

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking174not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency9.70no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 12Navi 12
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date1 December 2020 (4 years ago)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 cores23042304
Core clock speed1000 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1600 MHz1600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate230.4230.4
Floating-point processing power7.373 TFLOPS7.373 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs144144

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 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin8-pin EPS

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 typeHBM2HBM2
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s512.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.22.2
Vulkan1.21.3

Pros & cons summary


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