GeForce GT 540M and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 540M
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N12P-GS
GA107
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
December 2022
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
672 MHz
-
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
258.05 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
8,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
115 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
142.2
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
Optimus
+
-