GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 390X 8G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 390X 8G, which comes with clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon R9 390X 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (62%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 390X 8G should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		384000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 15360 (4%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390X 8G should be a lot (more or less 25%) better at AF than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		184800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36960 (25%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 390X 8G is superior to the GeForce RTX 3060, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3840 (6%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.