GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which features a GPU core clock speed of 926 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (42%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3060 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 470 4GB overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 157440 (75%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be a lot (about 25%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29312 (25%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card 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 colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.