GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which has a core clock frequency of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1425 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 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 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3060 is 102% faster than the Radeon R9 380 4G overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 186240 (102%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is quite a bit (more or less 36%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 380 4G. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39200 (36%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is superior to the Radeon R9 380 4G, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32320 (104%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.