Radeon RX 540 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs GeForce RTX 3060

Radeon RX 540

2872

GeForce RTX 3060

17598

Radeon RX 540

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

360.0 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

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

1.2

FreeSync