GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs Radeon RX 540X

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated237
Place by popularitynot in top-10045
Power efficiencyno data21.63
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code namePolaris 23GA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date11 April 2018 (6 years ago)11 May 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5122048
Core clock speed1124 MHz712 MHz
Boost clock speed1219 MHz1057 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate39.0167.65
Floating-point processing power1.248 TFLOPS4.329 TFLOPS
ROPs1640
TMUs3264
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargelarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s192.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 April 2018 11 May 2021
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 75 Watt

RX 540X has 50% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 540X and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 540X
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