AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM vs AMD FirePro W5100

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM and AMD FirePro W5100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 31% higher core clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 930 MHz
  • 873.9x more texture fill rate: 39.01 GTexel/s vs 44.64 GTexel / s
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 31 March 2014
Core clock speed 1219 MHz vs 930 MHz
Texture fill rate 39.01 GTexel/s vs 44.64 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W5100

  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 768 vs 512
  • 1190x better floating-point performance: 1,428 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
  • Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 65 Watt
  • Around 54% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 536 vs 348
  • Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2993 vs 1952
  • Around 24% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11662 vs 9416
  • Around 61% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3688 vs 2296
  • Around 61% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3688 vs 2296
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 768 vs 512
Floating-point performance 1,428 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 65 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 536 vs 348
PassMark - G3D Mark 2993 vs 1952
Geekbench - OpenCL 11662 vs 9416
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3688 vs 2296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3688 vs 2296

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W5100

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
348
536
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1952
2993
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
9416
11662
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2296
3688
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2296
3688
Name AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM AMD FirePro W5100
PassMark - G2D Mark 348 536
PassMark - G3D Mark 1952 2993
Geekbench - OpenCL 9416 11662
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2296 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2296 3688
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 35.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 838.518
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 57.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 163.258
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM AMD FirePro W5100

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 GCN 2.0
Code name Cape Verde Bonaire
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 3rd Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 31 March 2014
Place in performance rating 642 644
Type Laptop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1219 MHz
Compute units 8
Core clock speed 1219 MHz 930 MHz
Floating-point performance 1.2 TFLOPs 1,428 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 512 768
Pixel fill rate 19.50 GP/s
Render output units 16
Stream Processors 512
Texture fill rate 39.01 GTexel/s 44.64 GTexel / s
Texture Units 32
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 1,500 million 2,080 million

Video outputs and ports

DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 4
HD сomponent video output
StereoOutput3D

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Half Length
Length 171 mm

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 96 GB/s 96 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz 6000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
Enduro
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)