GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 570, which comes with a clock frequency of 1168 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, 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 speaking, 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 will be just a bit (more or less 1%) more effective at anisotropic 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 a lot (more or less 70%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 570, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.