Radeon RX 540 vs Radeon HD 7870

  AMD

Developer

  AMD

  Radeon RX 540

Model

  Radeon HD 7870

  -

benchmarks
Total performance

  35.1

  Polaris(Polaris 12)

Architecture

  GCN(Pitcairn XT)

  14

Process, nm

  28

  -

Release year

  2012

  512

Shaders

  1280

  -

Core frequency

  1000

  1219

Core frequency (turbo mode)

  -

  -

Shaders frequency

  1000

  GDDR5

Memory type

  GDDR5

  6000

Memory frequency

  4800

  128

Memory bus

  256

  12

DirectX

  11.1

  Vulkan

OpenGL

  4.2

  15818.0

benchmarks
3DMark06

  23230.0

  9285.0

benchmarks
Cinebench R10

  11154.0

 

    System device ids

     

    • 1002 6818
    • 1002 679E

     

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