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    Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire vs Radeon RX 540

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 540. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 540. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.
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    Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 540 are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 540 are only used in laptop graphics. They have lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire or Radeon RX 540 here:

    Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire Laptops
    Radeon RX 540 Laptops

    Main Specs

      Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire Radeon RX 540
    Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt
    Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
    Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
    Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 2x2 GB 4 GB
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    • Radeon RX 540 has 2 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon RX 540 - with Polaris.
    • Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon RX 540 - by 14 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon RX 540 is 5100 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 21−24 14−16
    ultra / 1080p 12−14 8−9
    QHD / 1440p 7−8 3−4
    4K / 2160p 5−6 −
    low / 720p 40−45 30−33
    medium / 1080p 24−27 18−20
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 46% more, than Radeon RX 540.

    Full Specs

      Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire Radeon RX 540
    Architecture Terascale 2 Polaris
    Code name Blackcomb XT Polaris 12
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 6 January 2011 21 March 2017
    Pipelines 1920 512
    Core clock speed 680 MHz
    Boost Clock 1219 MHz
    Transistor count 2x1700 Million 1,500 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 14 nm
    Texture fill rate 39.01
    Floating-point performance 1,248 gflops
    Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 900 MHz 6000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 96 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 12.0
    Shader Model 5.0
    OpenGL 4.6
    OpenCL 1.2
    FreeSync +
    Laptop size large large
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