AMD Radeon RX 540X: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon RX 540X sales 21 March 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. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 112.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 50 Watt.
We have no data on Radeon RX 540X benchmark results.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon RX 540X: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 (2016−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Polaris 12 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 21 March 2018 (6 years old) | |
| Current price | $199 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1219 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 2,200 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 35.97 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
Information on Radeon RX 540X's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Laptop size | large | |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
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 | 4 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory clock speed | 6000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 112.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
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 | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
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 support
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 670MX.
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