GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 570, which has core speeds of 1168 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3060 should in theory be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 570 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 139264 (61%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is a small bit (more or less 1%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1664 (1%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25984 (70%)

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 moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.