In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon HD 3300 are significantly better than the AMD Radeon X1050.

The Radeon HD 3300 has a 300 MHz higher core clock speed and the same number of Texture Mapping Units as the Radeon X1050. This results in the Radeon HD 3300 providing 1.2 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since the Radeon HD 3300 supports up to DirectX 10.

The Radeon HD 3300 has a 300 MHz higher core clock speed than the Radeon X1050 and the same number of Render Output Units. This results in the Radeon HD 3300 providing 1.2 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The Radeon HD 3300 was released over a year more recently than the Radeon X1050, and so the Radeon HD 3300 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the Radeon X1050.

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 Radeon X1050 has 128 MB video memory, but the Radeon HD 3300 does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.

The Radeon HD 3300 has 40 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon X1050 has 4. However, the actual shader performance of the Radeon HD 3300 is 18 and the actual shader performance of the Radeon X1050 is 1. The Radeon HD 3300 having 17 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the Radeon X1050 performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The Radeon HD 3300 transistor size technology is 55 nm (nanometers) smaller than the Radeon X1050. This means that the Radeon HD 3300 is expected to run massively cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the Radeon X1050. While they exhibit similar graphical performance, the Radeon HD 3300 should consume less power than the Radeon X1050.

The Radeon X1050 requires 24 Watts to run but there is no entry for the Radeon HD 3300. We would recommend a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the Radeon X1050, but we do not have a recommended PSU wattage for the Radeon HD 3300.