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GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 M390X

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3060 makes use of a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1320 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 1875 MHz on this specific model. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M390X, which features a core clock frequency of 723 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M390X 125 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 170 Watts
Difference: 45 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3060 will be 130% faster than the Radeon R9 M390X in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 368640 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M390X 160000 MB/sec
Difference: 208640 (130%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 should be much (about 60%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M390X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M390X 92544 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 55296 (60%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 should be much (about 174%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R9 M390X, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M390X 23136 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 40224 (174%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 3060 Radeon R9 M390X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year February 2021 2015
Code Name GA106 Tonga
Memory (Unknown) MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1320 MHz 723 MHz
Memory Speed 1875 GB/s 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 170 watts 125 watts
Bandwidth 368640 MB/sec 160000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 147840 Mtexels/sec 92544 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 63360 Mpixels/sec 23136 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 3584 2048
Texture Mapping Units 112 128
Render Output Units 48 32
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 8 nm 28 nm
Transistors 13250 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out 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 card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen 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 speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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