Radeon RX 540X: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon RX 540X sales 11 April 2018. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GCN 4.0 architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 96 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 50 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon RX 540X: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 (2016−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Polaris 23 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 11 April 2018 (6 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon RX 540X's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 540X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 512 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 1124 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1219 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 2,200 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 39.01 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.248 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 32 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 540X 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).
| Laptop size | large | |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 540X: 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 | 2 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1500 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 96 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 540X. 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 | No outputs |
Supported technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon RX 540X. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| FreeSync | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon RX 540X, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 540X is GeForce GTX 675MX.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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