Radeon RX 7500 XT vs RX 540 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCape VerdeNavi 33
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date19 April 2017 (7 years ago)2023 (1 year 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 cores5121024
Core clock speed1219 MHz1452 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2300 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million13,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate39.01147.2
Floating-point processing powerno data9.421 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs3264
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed6000 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s216.0 GB/s

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 Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.22.2
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 100 Watt

RX 540 OEM has 53.8% lower power consumption.

RX 7500 XT, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 540 OEM and Radeon RX 7500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM
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