GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600, which has GPU clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3060 should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon RX 5600 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 73728 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be a little bit (approximately 19%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28160 (19%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is superior to the GeForce RTX 3060, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24640 (39%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.