NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1219MHz vs 990MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB +224%

4.055 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

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Radeon RX 540 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Nov 2017

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

622 MHz

Base Clock

1124 MHz

990 MHz

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

2048

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Lexa

-

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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