GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon Pro Duo

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Pro Duo, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1000 MHz. The HBM RAM runs at a frequency of 500 MHz on this specific card. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon Pro Duo		350 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (106%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon Pro Duo should in theory be much better than the GeForce RTX 3060 in general. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		1024000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 655360 (178%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Pro Duo should be much (about 246%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		512000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 364160 (246%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon Pro Duo is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		128000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64640 (102%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.