GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 285, which features a clock frequency of 918 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1375 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 285 is -100% quicker than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 176000 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is quite a bit (about 108%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 111504 (108%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 83424 (284%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 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 get to the max fill rate.