GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 285, which features clock speeds of 918 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3060 should theoretically be much faster than the Radeon R9 285 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 192640 (109%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is much (more or less 44%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 45024 (44%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is much (more or less 116%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R9 285, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33984 (116%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.