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Radeon RX 540

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Effective Speed -1,173%Effective 3D Speed -1,173%Average Score -1,224%Lighting -1,484%, Reflection -764%, MRender -1,498%, Gravity -1,152%Overclocked Score -1,102%Lighting -1,377%, Reflection -884%, MRender -1,043%, Gravity -1,103%Value & Sentiment User Rating -94%, Market Share -∞%Nice To Haves -653%Parallax -1,020%, Splatting -492%, Parallax -1,037%, Splatting -599%, Age -117%

Average Bench: 11.6% (277^th of 713)

Based on 233 user benchmarks. Device: 1002 699F Model: Radeon RX 540

Poor: 8%Average: 11.6% Great: 13%

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Terrible average bench

The AMD Radeon RX 540 averaged 88.3% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 13.1fps

Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 19.1fps

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Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Radeon RX 540 is just 4.67%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the AMD Radeon RX 540 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 23.1fps

Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 18.1fps

Average Bench

(Based on 233 samples)

Rank 27711.6%

Min	Avg	Max
8.81	Lighting 13.1	15.3
18.4	Reflection 23.1	27.3
14.8	Parallax 18.1	20.8
10.7% 18.1 fps

Min	Avg	Max
10.1	MRender 15.6	23.3
9.48	Gravity 13.5	14.9
13.3	Splatting 19.1	24
13.4% 16.1 fps

User Benchmarks

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NLD-User, 8 months ago.Radeon RX 540

Intel(8086 2075) 2GB

CLim: 1124 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 18.50.08

11.5% Very poor

Lighting 13.5

Reflection 19.2

Parallax 19.1

11% 17.3 fps

MRender 12.7

Gravity 14.6

Splatting 17.1

12% 14.8 fps

POL-User, 6 months ago.Radeon RX 540

Intel(8086 2075) 2GB

CLim: 1124 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.12

11.4% Very poor

Lighting 13.5

Reflection 19.2

Parallax 19.4

11% 17.4 fps

MRender 12.8

Gravity 14.1

Splatting 17.1

12% 14.7 fps

USA-User, 3 months ago.Radeon RX 540

Intel(8086 2075) 2GB

CLim: 1124 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.12

11.4% Very poor

Lighting 13.4

Reflection 21.9

Parallax 19.2

11% 18.2 fps

MRender 13.6

Gravity 13.9

Splatting 17.1

12% 14.9 fps

CAN-User, 7 months ago.Radeon RX 540

Intel(8086 2075) 2GB

CLim: 1124 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.12

11.1% Very poor

Lighting 13.4

Reflection 19.4

Parallax 16

11% 16.3 fps

MRender 11.7

Gravity 11.7

Splatting 17.1

11% 13.5 fps

IND-User, 11 months ago.Radeon RX 540

HP(103C 83B4) 2GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 27.20.21026.6002

10.5% Very poor

Lighting 10.6

Reflection 22.3

Parallax 16.5

9% 16.5 fps

MRender 20.7

Gravity 12.8

Splatting 18.5

14% 17.3 fps

USA-User, 13 months ago.Radeon RX 540

Intel(8086 2075) 2GB

CLim: 1124 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.12

10.4% Very poor

Lighting 12

Reflection 21.3

Parallax 18.1

10% 17.1 fps

MRender 13.4

Gravity 13.2

Splatting 15

12% 13.9 fps

CHN-User, 10 months ago.Radeon RX 540

HP(103C 83B4) 2GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 31.0.12016.3004

7.91% Terrible

Lighting 7.7

Reflection 19.3

Parallax 11.8

6% 12.9 fps

MRender 7.8

Gravity 13.6

Splatting 17.3

11% 12.9 fps

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Hardware Id	Samples	Bench ± SD
Intel(8086 2075)	68%	12% ± 1%
HP(103C 83B4)	30%	11% ± 2%
HP(103C 83D2)	1%	11% ± 0%
HP(103C 8416)	0%	12% ± 0%

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Motherboard: Intel NUC8CYB

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Core i3-8121UIntelBench 54%, 242 samples	50x

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Radeon RX 540AMDBench 12%, 233 samples	42x

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MX300 750GBCrucial $160Bench 89%, 24,471 samples	2x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $80Bench 275%, 495,311 samples	2x
TM8PS7001T 1TBTeamBench 76%, 4,275 samples	2x

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F6E304HB-MGCj 2x4GBSamsungBench 76%, 152 samples	32x
F8E304HB-MGCj 2x2GBSamsungBench 67%, 48 samples	16x
2x4GBMicronBench 68%, 3,234 samples	2x

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Value: 18% - Very poor

Total price: $160

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