Radeon RX 540 and GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB Max-Q - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540
GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB Max-Q
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
GP107
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
February 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1442 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1366 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
3,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
768
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
69.22
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
7008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
84.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
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
+
-