ATI Radeon X1050 vs GeForce RTX 3060

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	81	not rated
Place by popularity	4	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	71.62	no data
Power efficiency	18.03	no data
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code name	GA106	RV370
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	12 January 2021 (3 years ago)	7 December 2006 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$329	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3584	no data
Core clock speed	1320 MHz	400 MHz
Boost clock speed	1777 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	12,000 million	107 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	170 Watt	24 Watt
Texture fill rate	199.0	1.600
Floating-point processing power	12.74 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	48	4
TMUs	112	4
Tensor Cores	112	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	28	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	242 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	128 MB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1875 MHz	333 MHz
Memory bandwidth	360.0 GB/s	5.328 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	9.0
Shader Model	6.7	no data
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
OpenCL	3.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.3	N/A
CUDA	8.6	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	12 January 2021	7 December 2006
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	128 MB
Chip lithography	8 nm	110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	170 Watt	24 Watt

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