GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 570, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 3060 should be much faster than the Radeon RX 570 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 139264 (61%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is a bit (approximately 1%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1664 (1%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be much (more or less 70%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 570, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25984 (70%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 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.