GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureUltra-Threaded SE (2005−2007)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRV516GA106
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date2007 (17 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data3840
Core clock speed452 MHz817 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1282 MHz
Number of transistors105 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate1.808153.8
Floating-point processing powerno data9.846 TFLOPS
ROPs448
TMUs4120
Tensor Coresno data120
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed532 MBps1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth4.256 GB/s288.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.5
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 60 Watt

ATI X1550 PCI has 122.2% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060 Max-Q, on the other hand, has a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1025% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1550 PCI and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon X1550 PCI is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon X1550 PCI
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