GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 285, which features GPU core speed of 918 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1375 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1792 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3060 should theoretically be much better than the Radeon R9 285 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 192640 (109%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is a lot (about 44%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 45024 (44%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is much (approximately 116%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R9 285, and also capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33984 (116%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write 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 called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 reach the maximum fill rate.