GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M385X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this specific card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 3060 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 a lot (more or less 140%) more effective 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

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is the winner, by far. (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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.