GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 270, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this particular model. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3060 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon R9 270 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 189440 (106%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is a lot (more or less 105%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 75840 (105%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is superior to the Radeon R9 270, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34560 (120%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per 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. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.