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.

Manufacturer

AMD

Radeon RX 500 Series

Radeon RX 580 (compare)	2304 @ 1257 - 1340 (Boost) MHz	256 Bit @ 8000 MHz
Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) (compare)	2304 @ 1077 MHz
Radeon RX 570 (Laptop) (compare)	2048	256 Bit @ 7000 MHz
Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) (compare)	1024 @ 1172 - 1275 (Boost) MHz	128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon RX 560 (Laptop) (compare)	1024 @ 1090 - 1292 (Boost) MHz	128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon RX 550 (Laptop) (compare)	640 @ 1287 - 1476 (Boost) MHz	128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon RX 540	512 @ 1219 (Boost) MHz	128 Bit @ 6000 MHz

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

4096 MB

Shared Memory

DirectX

DirectX 12

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/...

Benchmarks

3DMark - Time Spy Score 2560x1440

1095 Points (10%)

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3DMark - Time Spy Graphics 2560x1440

1008 Points (8%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics Score 1280x720 offscreen

138197 Points (29%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080

67875 Points (9%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

11989 Points (24%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

23263 Points (13%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

min: 2495 avg: 2871 median: 2985 (11%) max: 3133 Points

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

3519 Points (9%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720

83467 Points (11%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

min: 3783 avg: 4223.5 median: 4223.5 (14%) max: 4664 points

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

min: 4443 avg: 4544.5 median: 4544.5 (9%) max: 4646 points

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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AMD FirePro W5170M -8%

AMD Radeon HD 6870 -7%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI -7%

NVIDIA Quadro M1000M -7%

NVIDIA GeForce MX150 -7%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 -6%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M -5%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M -4%

AMD Radeon Pro 450 -1%

AMD Radeon RX 540

AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop) 0%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M SLI 2%

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 3%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (Desktop) 5%

NVIDIA Quadro K5000M 8%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 8%

NVIDIA Quadro K4100M 9%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M 9%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 10%

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Desktop) 839%

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3DMark Vantage
P Result 1280x1024 +

P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024 +

3DMark 03 - Standard 1024x768

48274 Points (27%)

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3DMark 05 - Standard 1024x768

20313 Points (43%)

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3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

Unigine Valley 1.0 - Extreme HD DirectX 1920x1080

19.3 fps (13%)

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Unigine Heaven 3.0 - DX 11, Normal Tessellation, High Shaders 1920x1080

31.2 fps (12%)

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Unigine Heaven 3.0 - OpenGL, Normal Tessellation, High Shaders 1920x1080

17.3 fps (10%)

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Unigine Heaven 2.1 - high, Tesselation (normal), DirectX11 1280x1024

31.9 fps (14%)

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Cinebench R10 Shading 32Bit +

Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64Bit +

Cinebench R15
OpenGL 64Bit +

Ref. Match 64Bit +

LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only

414 Samples/s (8%)

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only

811 Samples/s (8%)

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ComputeMark v2.1 - Normal, Score 1024x600

2708 Points (12%)

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Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.