NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs ATI Radeon X1550

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

ATI Radeon X1550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 195W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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Radeon X1550

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

195W

TDP

27W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

RV516

GA104

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

R500

Samsung

Foundry

UMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

3.0

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