GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R7 250X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 250X, which comes with a clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1125 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X		95 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (79%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3060 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 250X in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 296640 (412%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 should be a lot (more or less 270%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 250X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 107840 (270%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is superior to the Radeon R7 250X, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 47360 (296%)

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 over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.