Radeon RX 540X and GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540X

GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

GN20-P0-R 6 GB

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

March 2018

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

1492 MHz

Core clock speed

1237 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

35.97

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

12000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12_2

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

FreeSync