GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6800, which comes with clock speeds of 1700 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 Texture Address Units and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon RX 6800		250 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6800 will be 42% quicker than the GeForce RTX 3060 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		524288 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 155648 (42%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 should be quite a bit (more or less 176%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		408000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 260160 (176%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 should be quite a bit (approximately 158%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3060, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		163200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 99840 (158%)

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 information (counted 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 interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.