AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1425MHz vs 1219MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +776%

10.94 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Nov 2017

Release Date

Jan 2021

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

1425 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

512

Shading Units

3840

32

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.40 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

171.0 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.94 TFLOPS

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.94 TFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

171.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

60-115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA106

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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