GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 270X, which has GPU core speed of 1000 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, 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 270X		180 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3060 should be 106% faster than the Radeon R9 270X in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is much (more or less 85%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 67840 (85%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is quite a bit (about 98%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 270X, and able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31360 (98%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at 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 could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.