GeForce GT 1030 and Radeon RX 540X - video card comparison
GeForce GT 1030
Radeon RX 540X
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
N17P-G1
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
May 2017
March 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1670 MHz
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
1228 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,127 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,800 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
512
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
35.23
35.97
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
48.06 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+
VR Ready
+
-