GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 550, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 512 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (240%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3060 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 253952 (221%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be quite a bit (approximately 320%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 112640 (320%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 45760 (260%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.