GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600, which features GPU clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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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 theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon RX 5600 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is a 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

The Radeon RX 5600 is a lot (more or less 39%) better at FSAA than the GeForce RTX 3060, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.