GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 460, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 3060 should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 460 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 256640 (229%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be much (more or less 142%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86800 (142%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is a lot (more or less 263%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 460, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 45920 (263%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.