GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 480, which has GPU clock speed of 1120 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 480 should in theory be a small bit better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 262144 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti will be a lot (more or less 33%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 53040 (33%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 76960 (215%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.