Radeon 540 and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 540 vs GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Radeon 540
1420
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
12990
Radeon 540
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Lexa
GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1183 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
130 Watt
Texture fill rate
28.39
142.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
32 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6 GB/s
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
24 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.3