GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which comes with core speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (24%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should be a small bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 50790 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be a lot (approximately 75%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 111104 (75%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10624 (17%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.