Radeon RX 540 and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Radeon RX 540
2872
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
21151
Radeon RX 540
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
December 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1665 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1410 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
4864
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
253.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12.0
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2
FreeSync
+
-