Radeon RX 540 and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Radeon RX 540
2872
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
12990
Radeon RX 540
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
GA106
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1777 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
130 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
142.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12.0
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
Vulkan
-
1.3
FreeSync
+
-