Radeon RX 540X and GeForce MX330 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540X

GeForce MX330

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

N17S-LP / N17S-G3

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

March 2018

February 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

1594 MHz

Core clock speed

-

1531 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

2,200 million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

384

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

25 Watt (12 - 25 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

35.97

38.26

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

7000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

48.06 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

6.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2.131

FreeSync

+

-

Optimus

-

+