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Radeon 540
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VRAM
1 GB
CUDA
384
FP32
0.9085 TF
Bandwidth
24 GB/s
TDP
50W
Boost
1124 MHz
Strengths at a Glance
How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
FP32 compute0.9085 TFLOPS1%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth24 GB/s1%
vs RTX 5090 D: 1790 GB/s
VRAM capacity1 GB3%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units3842%
vs RTX 5090 D: 21,760
Power efficiency6/10010%
vs RTX 5090 D: 58/100
Synthetic Benchmarks
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
3DMark Time Spy1,440pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)540pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)208spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute7,200pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts
Performance breakdown
Gaming4
Ray tracing3
AI / Compute3
Creator / 3D4
Power efficiency6
Real-World Gaming
FPS Across Resolutions
1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 3 fps
1080p
5
1440p
3
4K
2
Call of Duty: MW IIIavg 5 fps
1080p
7
1440p
5
4K
3
Alan Wake 2avg 3 fps
1080p
4
1440p
3
4K
2
Forza Horizon 5avg 5 fps
1080p
7
1440p
5
4K
3
Baldur's Gate 3avg 4 fps
1080p
6
1440p
4
4K
3
Community Feedback
What Owners Say
Owners say it's fine for basic office work and older games, but the tiny memory buffer kills performance in anything modern.
Pros
- Plays older games just fine
- Fits in tiny office PCs
- Uses very little electricity
- Works without extra power cables
Cons
- Too little VRAM for modern games
- Loud fan under heavy load
- No modern feature set support
Supported technologies
AV1 Encode
Full specifications
Graphics processor
Core configuration
- CUDA Cores
- 384
- TMUs
- 24
- ROPs
- 16
- L2 cache
- 512 MB
Memory
- Size
- 1 GB
- Type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 32-bit
- Bandwidth
- 24 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 1500 MHz
Clocks & throughput
- Base clock
- 1183 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1124 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 0.9085 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 0.9085 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 18 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 28.39 GTexel/s
Board & power
- TDP
- 50W
- Suggested PSU
- 100W
- Power connectors
- None
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x8
- Length
- 145 mm
- Slot width
- 1-slot
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 (12_0)
- Shader Model
- 6.7
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.1
- Vulkan
- 1.3
Verdict
Our verdict on the 540
An entry-level GCN 4.0 card from 2017 with 1 GB VRAM that was underpowered even for basic gaming at launch.
Get it if you need the cheapest possible card for basic display output on a very old office PC. Skip it if you plan to game or do anything remotely modern, as it's far too weak for even light titles.
Buy it if…
- Buy it if you need a basic display output for a cheap office PC.
- Buy it if you are building a retro gaming rig for decade-old titles.
- Buy it if you must have a low-power card for a tiny, non-gaming build.
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