GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which comes with clock speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3060, in theory, should be much faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 139264 (61%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should be a small bit (more or less 2%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3256 (2%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8416 (15%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated 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 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.