GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 580, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1257 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this specific model. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3060 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 580 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 106496 (41%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 will be quite a bit (about 22%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 33168 (22%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23136 (58%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant 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.