AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
AMD Radeon 540
0.908 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+611%
6.463 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Dec 2018
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1506 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
32bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
6
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
15
384
Shading Units
1920
24
TMUs
120
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.93 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
28.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
908.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
908.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
56.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Lexa
GPU Name
GP104
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Pascal
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
16 nm
2.2 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
103 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
