GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460, which comes with core speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3060 should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon RX 460 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 256640 (229%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be a lot (more or less 142%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86800 (142%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 should be quite a bit (more or less 263%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 460, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 45920 (263%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.