Radeon RX 540 OEM vs GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking212not rated
Place by popularity74not in top-100
Power efficiency30.50no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGN20-P0Cape Verde
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)19 April 2017 (7 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 cores2048512
Core clock speed1238 MHz1219 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)65 Watt
Texture fill rateno data39.01
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data32

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed12000 MHz6000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96 GB/s
Shared memory--

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_212.0
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.5
OpenCLno data1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 May 2021 19 April 2017
Chip lithography 8 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 65 Watt

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile has an age advantage of 4 years, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 8.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile and Radeon RX 540 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon RX 540 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM
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