Radeon 540X and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 540X vs GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Radeon 540X
1472
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
12990
Radeon 540X
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Lexa
GA106
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
August 2019
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1777 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
130 Watt
Texture fill rate
33.47
142.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3