GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with GPU clock speed of 926 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (42%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3060 will be 75% quicker than the Radeon RX 470 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 157440 (75%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 should be quite a bit (more or less 25%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29312 (25%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is superior to the Radeon RX 470, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33728 (114%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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