AMD Radeon RX 540
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q
AMD Radeon RX 540
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

394
Place in performance rating
239
Polaris
Architecture
Pascal
Polaris 12
Code name
GP107
Laptop
Type
Laptop
21 March 2017 (4 years ago)
Release date
3 January 2018 (3 years ago)
$166
Price now
$1140
13.38
Value for money
5.60
Polaris 12
GPU code name
N17P-G1 Max-Q
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

512
Pipelines
768
no data
Core clock speed
1151 – 1290 MHz
1219 MHz
Boost Clock
1417 MHz
1,500 million
Transistor count
3,300 million
14 nm
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
65 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
39.01
Texture fill rate
68.02
1,248 gflops
Floating-point performance
2,177 gflops
512
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
1219 MHz
Boost clock speed
1290 – 1417 MHz
1,500 million
Number of transistors
3,300 million
65 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
75 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
1x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
None
large
Laptop size
medium sized

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
6000 MHz
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
96 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112.1 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs
no data
G-SYNC support
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q is the additional functionality.

no data
VR Ready
+
no data
Multi Monitor
+
no data
CUDA
6.1
no data
Multi-Projection
+
+
FreeSync
no data
+
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12.0
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
no data
Vulkan
1.2.131
5.0
Shader Model
6.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon RX 540 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon RX 540 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon RX 540
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon RX 540
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon RX 540
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon RX 540
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon RX 540
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon RX 540

Cheaper ($166 vs $1140)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 16 nm)

Less power consumption (65 Watt vs 75 Watt)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q

13.17% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (768 vs 512)

More memory bandwidth (112.1 GB/s vs 96 GB/s)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

So, AMD Radeon RX 540 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q .

AMD Radeon RX 540 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q performance benchmarks comparison

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