Radeon R9 390X2 vs RX 540

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	541	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	9.93	no data
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	GCN (2012−2015)
GPU code name	Lexa	no data
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	11 November 2017 (7 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 cores	512	2
Core clock speed	1124 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1219 MHz	1000 MHz
Number of transistors	2,200 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	39.01	no data
Floating-point processing power	1.248 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	no data
TMUs	32	no data

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).

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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	512
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	5400 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	no data

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 Connectors

No outputs

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Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	GDDR5
Shader Model	6.4	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.0	no data
Vulkan	1.2.131	-

Pros & cons summary

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