Radeon RX 540 and GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
GP108
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
March 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1379 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1152 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
1,059 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
33.10
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
2100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
16.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12.0
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
FreeSync
+
-