GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon VII, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1400 MHz. The HBM2 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (74%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon VII should be much faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 in general. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 679936 (184%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is quite a bit (more or less 127%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 188160 (127%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon VII should be much (about 41%) better at AA than the GeForce RTX 3060, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26240 (41%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its 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 - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.