GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 M295X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M295X, which comes with core speeds of 750 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M295X		125 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3060 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M295X overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M295X		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 192640 (109%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be much (approximately 54%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 M295X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M295X		96000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 51840 (54%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is quite a bit (about 164%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R9 M295X, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M295X		24000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39360 (164%)

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 transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling 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 per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.