NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 170W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

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

690 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

44.16GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

12

48

ROPs

12

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.900 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.900 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

RV570

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

Ampere

Architecture

R500

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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