Radeon X1950 PRO and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison

Radeon X1950 PRO

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Architecture

R500 (2005−2007)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

RV570

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

October 2006

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

575 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

330 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

66 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

6.900

199.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1380 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

44.16 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.0

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3