GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon HD 5850

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 5850, which has core clock speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1440(288x5) SPUs along with 72 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5850		151 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 49 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 5850 will be -100% faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850		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 311%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 5850. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5850		52200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 162120 (311%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5850		23200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 89600 (386%)

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 past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.