NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 ATI Radeon X1700 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon X1700 SE

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

RV560

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV560 SE

Ampere

Architecture

R500

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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