GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has GPU clock speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM running at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also features 4096 Stream Processors, 256 Texture Address Units, 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

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be 34% faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be quite a bit (approximately 139%) faster with regards to texture 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 much (more or less 40%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce RTX 3060, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its 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 the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.