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GPUDesktopReleased Apr 20, 2017

AMD Radeon 540

32-bit · 384 cores

The Radeon 540 is an entry-level desktop graphics card that AMD supplied only to system builders for prebuilt PCs. It uses a cut-down Polaris 12 (Lexa) chip with 6 compute units and 1 GB of GDDR5 on a narrow 32-bit bus, and needs no auxiliary power connector.

General

Manufacturer
AMD
Model
Radeon 540
Segment
Desktop
GPU chip
Polaris 12 (Lexa)
Architecture
GCN 4 (Polaris)
Release date
Apr 20, 2017

Memory

Memory size
1 GB
Memory type
GDDR5
Bus width
32-bit
Bandwidth
24 GB/s
Memory clock
1,500 MHz

Clocks & silicon

GPU clock
1,183 MHz
Boost clock
—
Shader units
384 Stream Processors (6 CU)
Tensor / AI cores
—
RT cores
—
Transistors
2.2 billion
Technology (nm)
14 nm
GF 14LPP
TDP / TBP
50 W

Interface & APIs

Bus interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
SLI / multi-GPU
—
DirectX
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
Other APIs
—

AI support

Precisions
FP8FP16BF16INT8INT4TF32FP64
AI accelerator
—
Peak AI TOPS
—
Notes
—
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