Radeon RX 540 Mobile vs GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 540 Mobile Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh Advantages
Released 4 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1492MHz vs 1219MHz)
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
1248
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh
+389%
6111
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
1237 MHz
1219 MHz
Boost Clock
1492 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
8
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
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
47.74 GPixel/s
39.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.49 GTexel/s
1248 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
6.111 TFLOPS
1248 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.111 TFLOPS
78.02 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
95.49 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Lexa
GPU Name
GA107
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
(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
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
