Radeon X1950 XTX and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Radeon X1950 XTX

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

R500 (2005−2007)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

R580+

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

October 2006

January 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

650 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

384 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

125 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

10.40

199.0

Memory type

GDDR4

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

64 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 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