NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1425MHz vs 1219MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +776%

10.94 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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Radeon RX 540 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Nov 2017

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1124 MHz

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

3840

Shading Units

512

120

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Lexa

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GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

60-115W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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