AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

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AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1219MHz vs 990MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh +224%

4.055 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

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GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

Graphics Card

Nov 2017

Release Date

Jul 2022

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

622 MHz

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

990 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.68 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

63.36 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.055 TFLOPS

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.055 TFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

63.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA107

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

103 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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