FireGL X3-256 and GeForce RTX 3050 OEM - video card comparison

FireGL X3-256

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Architecture

R400 (2004−2008)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

R420

GA106

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2004

January 2022

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

491 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

160 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

57 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.892

140.4

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

908 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

29.06 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.0

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3