AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 645 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 645 OEM 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), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 57% higher core clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 776 MHz
  • 1048.7x more texture fill rate: 39.01 GTexel/s vs 37.2 GTexel / s
  • Around 78% higher pipelines: 512 vs 288
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 57% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 102 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 57% higher memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 3828 MHz
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed 1219 MHz vs 776 MHz
Texture fill rate 39.01 GTexel/s vs 37.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 512 vs 288
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt vs 102 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 3828 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 645 OEM

  • 745x better floating-point performance: 894.0 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
  • Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 443 vs 368
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2006 vs 1857
Specifications (specs)
Floating-point performance 894.0 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 443 vs 368
PassMark - G3D Mark 2006 vs 1857

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 645 OEM

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
368
443
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1857
2006
Name AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GT 645 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark 368 443
PassMark - G3D Mark 1857 2006
Geekbench - OpenCL 9416
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2296
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1914
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1914

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GT 645 OEM

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Fermi 2.0
Code name Cape Verde GF114
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 3rd Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 24 April 2012
Place in performance rating 623 557
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1219 MHz
Compute units 8
Core clock speed 1219 MHz 776 MHz
Floating-point performance 1.2 TFLOPs 894.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 512 288
Pixel fill rate 19.50 GP/s
Render output units 16
Stream Processors 512
Texture fill rate 39.01 GTexel/s 37.2 GTexel / s
Texture Units 32
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 102 Watt
Transistor count 1,500 million 1,950 million

Video outputs and ports

DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Length 210 mm

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 96 GB/s 91.9 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz 3828 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)