NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 170W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

Radeon X1550 PCI

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

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

266 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

4.256GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

4

48

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.808 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.808 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

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

GA104-150-A1

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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