Radeon RX 540 and GeForce RTX 3070 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 540 vs GeForce RTX 3070

Radeon RX 540

2872

GeForce RTX 3070

23060

Radeon RX 540

GeForce RTX 3070

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

Ampere GA104

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

September 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

1725 MHz

Core clock speed

1500 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

5888

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

220 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

317.4

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

8.5

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

1.2

FreeSync