Radeon RX 540 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
N17P-G1 Max-Q
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
May 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1341 - 1480 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1063 - 1265 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
60 - 70 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6.144 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12.0
12.0
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
-
+
FreeSync
+
-
VR Ready
-
+