Radeon RX 540 OEM and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540 OEM

GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Cape Verde

GN20-E3 GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

April 2017

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1283 MHz

Core clock speed

1219 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

65 Watt

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

153.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

264.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

1.2