GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 590, which uses a 12 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this particular model. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3060 will be 41% faster than the Radeon RX 590 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (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 (more or less 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 much (more or less 35%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 590, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at 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 write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.