GeForce GTX 1050 and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX 540
GeForce GTX 1050
5198
Radeon RX 540
2872
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
N17P-G1
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2016
March 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
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
1290 MHz
-
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,862 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
3,300 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
512
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
75 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
No outputs
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
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
Ansel
+
-
FreeSync
-
+
GameStream
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-