Radeon 540X vs R5 A255

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated701
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data5.37
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameTopazLexa
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date2014 (10 years ago)5 September 2018 (6 years ago)

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 cores384512
Core clock speed925 MHz980 MHz
Boost clock speed940 MHz1046 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rate22.5633.47
Floating-point processing powerno data1.071 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2432

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 x8PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed4 GB/s1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s48 GB/s
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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.0
Vulkan1.2.1701.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

Radeon 540X has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 A255 and Radeon 540X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 A255 is a desktop card while Radeon 540X is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R5 A255
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