GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1605 MHz, and 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2560 Stream Processors, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 90112 (24%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT will be a lot (approximately 74%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 108960 (74%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT will be quite a bit (more or less 62%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce RTX 3060, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39360 (62%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.