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 | |
| 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 | no |
| 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
Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy
12.9 pt (13%)
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3DMark - Time Spy Score 2560x1440
min: 643 avg: 869 median: 869 (6%) max: 1095 Points
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3DMark - Time Spy Graphics 2560x1440
min: 566 avg: 787 median: 787 (5%) max: 1008 Points
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3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics Score 1280x720 offscreen
138197 Points (26%)
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB -4%
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3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080
67875 Points (9%)
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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720
min: 9431 avg: 12236 median: 12853.5 (19%) max: 13804 Points
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB -1%
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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720
min: 18704 avg: 23165 median: 24170 (12%) max: 25616 Points
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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080
min: 2495 avg: 3053 median: 3059 (10%) max: 3488 Points
| Samsung Notebook 9 Pro NP940X5M | i7-7500U | 16384 MB | | 2048MB GDDR5 | 2495 |
| Intel NUC8i3CYSM | i3-8121U | 8192 MB | 1124 / 1500 MHz | 2048MB 25.20.15008.2 | 2748 |
Acer Swift 3 SF315-41G  | R7 2700U | | | 2048MB | 2985 |
| Acer Swift 3 SF315-41G-R6BR | R5 2500U | 8192 MB | 1124 / 1250 MHz | 2048MB GDDR5, 128-Bit-Anbindung 23.20.817.256 | 3133 |
| Dell Latitude 5420 Rugged-P85G | i7-8650U | 16384 MB | 1176 / 1500 MHz | 4096MB GDDR5 AMD Radeon Driver Packaging Version 18.10.22-180612a-332314C-Dell | 3469 |
| Dell Latitude 7424 Rugged Extreme | i7-8650U | 16384 MB | 1176 / 1500 MHz | 4096MB GDDR5 AMD Radeon 18.10.22-180612a-332314C-Dell | 3488 |
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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080
min: 3242 avg: 3623 median: 3686 (9%) max: 3876 Points
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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720
min: 83467 avg: 89575 median: 89574.5 (12%) max: 95682 Points
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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720
min: 3783 avg: 4673 median: 4664 (12%) max: 5273 points
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 6%
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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720
min: 4443 avg: 4699 median: 4646 (9%) max: 4983 points
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 7%
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3DMark Vantage
P Result 1280x1024 +3DMark Vantage - P Result 1280x1024
min: 12248 avg: 13720 median: 13719.5 (16%) max: 15191 Points
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 -3%
AMD Radeon HD 6790 -1%
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P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024 +3DMark Vantage - P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024
min: 11597 avg: 12907 median: 12906.5 (14%) max: 14216 Points
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AMD Radeon HD 6790 -7%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB -7%
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3DMark 03 - Standard 1024x768
48274 Points (25%)
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ATI Radeon HD 5770 3%
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3DMark 05 - Standard 1024x768
20313 Points (38%)
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3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +min: 14964 avg: 16481 median: 15818 (32%) max: 18661 Points
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 -5%
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 -3%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 0%
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Unigine Valley 1.0 - Extreme HD DirectX 1920x1080
19.3 fps (12%)
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Unigine Heaven 3.0 - DX 11, Normal Tessellation, High Shaders 1920x1080
31.2 fps (10%)
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Unigine Heaven 3.0 - OpenGL, Normal Tessellation, High Shaders 1920x1080
17.3 fps (8%)
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Unigine Heaven 2.1 - high, Tesselation (normal), DirectX11 1280x1024
min: 31.9 avg: 39.8 median: 39.8 (7%) max: 47.6 fps
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ATI Radeon HD 5770 -7%
ATI Radeon HD 5850 -5%
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Cinebench R10 Shading 32Bit +Cinebench R10 - Shading 32Bit
min: 8002 avg: 9285 median: 9285 (47%) max: 10568 Points
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ATI Radeon HD 5570 0%
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Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64Bit +Cinebench R11.5 - OpenGL 64Bit
min: 70.11 avg: 86.4 median: 94 (53%) max: 95.04 Points
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Cinebench R15
OpenGL 64Bit +Cinebench R15 - OpenGL 64Bit
min: 72.66 avg: 76.8 median: 76.4 (31%) max: 81.09 Points
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Ref. Match 64Bit +Cinebench R15 - Ref. Match 64Bit
98 Points (98%)
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GFXBench - Car Chase Offscreen off screen
31.8 fps (7%)
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GFXBench - Car Chase Onscreen on screen
29.1 fps (11%)
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only
min: 414 avg: 431 median: 430.5 (4%) max: 447 Samples/s
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only
min: 811 avg: 858 median: 858 (8%) max: 905 Samples/s
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ComputeMark v2.1 - Normal, Score 1024x600
min: 990 avg: 1565 median: 998 (4%) max: 2708 Points
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Power Consumption - The Witcher 3 Power Consumption (external Monitor) ultra 1920x1080 *
min: 57.5 avg: 58.2 median: 58.2 (12%) max: 58.8 Watt
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Power Consumption - Witcher 3 ultra - Power Consumption *
min: 68.1 avg: 68.6 median: 68.6 (15%) max: 69.1 Watt
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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
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 detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
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