GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 250, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1150 MHz on this specific model. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (162%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3060 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 250 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 295040 (401%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be quite a bit (about 516%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 123840 (516%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is much (about 692%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 250, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 55360 (692%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes 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 get to the max fill rate.