Radeon Graphics 448SP vs 540

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking717not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.10no data
Power efficiency5.00no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameLexaRenoir
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 April 2017 (7 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$79 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores384448
Core clock speed1183 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate28.3953.20
Floating-point processing power0.9085 TFLOPS1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs2428

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8IGP
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width32 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth24 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 Connectors2x DisplayPort 1.4aMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.1
Vulkan1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 April 2017 6 January 2020
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

Graphics 448SP has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 540 and Radeon Graphics 448SP. We've got no test results to judge.


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