GeForce GTX 1050 and Radeon RX 540 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon RX 540 OEM
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
N17P-G1
Cape Verde
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2016
April 2017
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
300 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI
-
-
SLI options
-
-
Boost clock speed
1392 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1290 MHz
1219 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,862 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,300 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
512
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
65 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
58.20
39.01
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7008 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
-
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
2.2
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
Ansel
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-