GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1825 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 4608 SPUs along with 288 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon RX 6800 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6800 XT should in theory be a lot faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		524288 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 155648 (42%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT will be much (more or less 256%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		525600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 377760 (256%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 XT is superior to the GeForce RTX 3060, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 170240 (269%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

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