AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon RX 540

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 540 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 540

Price

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$ 987.00

$ 25.99

$ 961.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

807 points

129% significantly better overall score

352 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

19 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22331 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10620 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9390 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1219 MHz

35% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

925 MHz

1219 MHz

31% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

2 GB/s

96 GB/s

4700% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s

51% significantly higher pixel rate

19.5 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s

89% significantly higher texture rate

39.01 Gigatexels/s

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

280th of 586

360th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon R9 270 vs Radeon RX 540 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon R9 270 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 540 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 540 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 540 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 540 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 270 is faster than the Radeon RX 540.