GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce RTX 3060 overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 126812 (34%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is much (about 139%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 205952 (139%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25088 (40%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.