Radeon X1650 GT and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Radeon X1650 GT

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

R500 (2005−2007)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

RV560

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

May 2007

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

400 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

330 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.200

199.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.0

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2