GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs ATI Radeon Xpress X1270

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated168
Place by popularitynot in top-10068
Power efficiencyno data27.91
Architectureno dataAmpere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameM690TGA106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 February 2007 (17 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)

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 cores43840
Core clock speedno data900 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistorsno data13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data171.0
Floating-point processing powerno data10.94 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data120
Tensor Coresno data120
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16

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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB6 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data336.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 February 2007 12 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 8 nm

RTX 3060 Mobile has an age advantage of 13 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Xpress X1270 and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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ATI Radeon Xpress X1270
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