Radeon RX 540X and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540X

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2018

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2,200 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

35.97

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

112.0 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

FreeSync