GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this specific card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 480, in theory, should be a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 262144 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti should be a lot (more or less 33%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 53040 (33%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 76960 (215%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 that the graphics chip 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.