AMD Radeon RX 540 Benchmark and Specs

AMD Radeon RX 540

Released in 2017, the Radeon RX 540 is a GPU from AMD. According to our GPU Benchmark, this GPU is a bad card for gaming with a score of 352 points.

The Radeon RX 540 has 4 GiB of GDDR5 memory, with a total memory bandwidth of 93 GB/s. The memory bus has a width of 128 bits. More memory is beneficial when gaming at high resolutions as the memory needs to store the frame buffer and all the game textures. If you run out of memory, you will experience poor performance as the GPU needs to swap data in and out of the memory as it is used.

In terms of clock speed, the Radeon RX 540 GPU core runs at a frequency of 1219 MHz and if power and temperature permits, it can boost up to 1219 MHz. The core clock is directly related to the performance of a GPU, the higher the clock, the more processing can be done per second. A higher clock does not guarantee better performance by itself, this also depends on the number of shading units and other elements of the pipeline.

As for rendering API support, the Radeon RX 540 supports up to DirectX 12. In addition, in cross-platform titles, OpenGL 4.5 features are supported. Higher level APIs such as DirectX 12 give more control to the game developer and can allow them to improve the graphics and performance.

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