GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 285, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 918 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1375 MHz on this specific model. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator 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 will be -100% quicker than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti should be much (more or less 108%) better at texture 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 the winner, by a large margin. (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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.