Radeon 540 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 540 vs GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon 540
1420
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
Radeon 540
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Lexa
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1183 MHz
1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
28.39
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
32 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
6 GB/s
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
24 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.5
Vulkan
1.3
1.2