Radeon RX 540X: specs and benchmarks
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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 (7 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 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 1124 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 1219 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 2,200 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 39.01 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.248 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 32 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1500 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 96 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
| 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 and SDK 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 675MX.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon RX 540X according to our statistics.
