GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M385X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this model. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 3060 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M385X in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 272640 (284%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is a lot (more or less 140%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M385X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86240 (140%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 should be much (approximately 260%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M385X, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 45760 (260%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.