Radeon RX 540 OEM vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking325not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation8.85no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameGP107Cape Verde
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 January 2017 (7 years ago)19 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Current price$545 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores768512
CUDA cores768no data
Core clock speed1493 MHz1219 MHz
Boost clock speed1620 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,300 million1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt65 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature97 °Cno data
Texture fill rate77.7639.01
Floating-point performanceno data1,248 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile and Radeon RX 540 OEM compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed7 GB/s6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth112 GB/s96 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 data
G-SYNC support+no data

Supported technologies

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

Ansel+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12.0
Shader Model6.45.0
OpenGL4.64.5
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.131no data
CUDA+no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2017 19 April 2017
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 65 Watt

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile and Radeon RX 540 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon RX 540 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
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