GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M385X, which comes with GPU core speed of 1100 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3060, in theory, should be much faster than the Radeon R9 M385X overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 272640 (284%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is much (more or less 140%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M385X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86240 (140%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be a lot (more or less 260%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R9 M385X, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 45760 (260%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount 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 worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.