GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 285, which has a clock speed of 918 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1375 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 1792 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 285 should in theory be a little bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 176000 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is much (more or less 108%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 111504 (108%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is a lot (more or less 284%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R9 285, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 83424 (284%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus 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 higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.