GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with core speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 126812 (34%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be quite a bit (about 139%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 205952 (139%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be a lot (more or less 40%) better at AA than the GeForce RTX 3060, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25088 (40%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

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