AMD Radeon RX 540

The AMD Radeon RX 540 is mobile mid-range graphics card for laptops based on the Polaris 12 chip (most likely). It is manufactured in an improved 14 nm FinFET process at Globalfoundries. The performance should be between the Radeon Pro 450 and 455 in the MacBook Pro 2016 range that is also based on the Polaris architecture. AMD specifies the RX 450 at 1.2 TFLOPS (Pro 450 1 TFLOP, Pro 455 1.3 TFLOPs). Compared to Nvidia graphics cards, the gaming performance should be between the GeForce GTX 950M and GTX 960M.
The features of the Radeon RX 540 are identical to the faster RX 460 and all other Polaris chips. See more details on the Polaris architecture here.
The power envelope of the faster Radeon Pro 460 is rated at 35 Watt according to the AMD blog post. Due to the slower specs, the Radeon RX 540 use slightly less.
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Codename | Polaris 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architecture | Polaris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pipelines | 512 - unified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Core Speed | 1219 (Boost) MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Speed | 6000 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Type | GDDR5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Max. Amount of Memory | 4 GB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shared Memory | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
API | DirectX 12, OpenGL Vulkan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power Consumption | 75 Watt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
technology | 14 nm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features | DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready, HDMI 2.0, AMD FreeSync | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notebook Size | large | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of Announcement | 21.03.2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Link to Manufacturer Page | http://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/... |