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

Radeon RX 540X

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

GN20-E3 GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

March 2018

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

1702 MHz

Core clock speed

817 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2,200 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

35.97

171.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

336.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

No outputs

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