AMD Radeon RX 540 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare AMD Radeon RX 540 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

352 points

593 points

68% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

9 FPS

13 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

10 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

8 FPS

12 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

5 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10620 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9390 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9443 points

11397 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1219 MHz

306% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1219 MHz

2000 MHz

64% significantly higher boost clock speed

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

19.5 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

39.01 Gigatexels/s

64 Gigatexels/s

64% significantly higher texture rate

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

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

360th of 586

310th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2021 January

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

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 540 vs Radeon Vega 8 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon Vega 8 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 540 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 540 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon Vega 8 is faster than the Radeon RX 540.