NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs AMD Radeon 540

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +901%

9.098 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

32bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Lexa

GA107-150-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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