ATI Radeon X1550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

ATI Radeon X1550

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 14 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1550

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Jan 2021

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

-

Shading Units

3584

4

TMUs

112

4

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

2.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

27W

TDP

170W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

RV516

GPU Name

GA106

-

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

R500

Architecture

Ampere

UMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.107 billion

Transistors

12 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

3.0

Shader Model

6.6

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