GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon HD 5830

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5830, which has GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1120(224x5) SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5830		175 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 5830 is -100% faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830		128000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 128000 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 378%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 5830. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5830		44800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 169520 (378%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA 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 HD 5830		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 100000 (781%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.