GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 590, which makes use of a 12 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this specific card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3060 should theoretically perform much faster than the Radeon RX 590 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 106496 (41%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 should be a lot (about 43%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 63696 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be quite a bit (about 35%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 590, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16352 (35%)

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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.