In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD FireGL V3600 are significantly better than the AMD Radeon X1050.

The FireGL V3600 was released less than a year after the Radeon X1050, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.

Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.

The FireGL V3600 has 128 MB more video memory than the Radeon X1050, so is likely to be slightly better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the FireGL V3600 also has superior memory performance overall.

The FireGL V3600 has 10.7 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the Radeon X1050, which means that the memory performance of the FireGL V3600 is slightly better than the Radeon X1050.

The FireGL V3600 has 120 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon X1050 has 4. However, the actual shader performance of the FireGL V3600 is 47 and the actual shader performance of the Radeon X1050 is 1. The FireGL V3600 having 46 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the FireGL V3600 delivers a marginally smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the Radeon X1050.

The Radeon X1050 requires 24 Watts to run but there is no entry for the FireGL V3600. We would recommend a PSU with at least 350 Watts for the FireGL V3600 and a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the Radeon X1050. The FireGL V3600 has been recommended a PSU with 50 Watts more than the Radeon X1050. The difference is significant enough that the FireGL V3600 may have a slight adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the Radeon X1050.