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GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3060 makes use of a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1320 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1875 MHz on this particular card. It features 3584 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs 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

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3060 will be 25% faster than the Radeon RX 5600 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is just a bit (about 19%) better at texture filtering 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 a better choice, by a large margin. (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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 3060 Radeon RX 5600
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year February 2021 January 2020
Code Name GA106 Navi 10 XE
Memory (Unknown) MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 1320 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory Speed 1875 GB/s 1500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 170 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 368640 MB/sec 294912 MB/sec
Texel Rate 147840 Mtexels/sec 176000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 63360 Mpixels/sec 88000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 3584 2048
Texture Mapping Units 112 128
Render Output Units 48 64
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Bus Width 192-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 8 nm 7 nm
Transistors 13250 million 10300 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce RTX 3060

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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