GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 M265X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M265X, which has a clock speed of 575 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1125 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3060 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R9 M265X in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M265X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 296640 (412%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is much (approximately 543%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M265X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M265X		23000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 124840 (543%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be much (approximately 589%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R9 M265X, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M265X		9200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54160 (589%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR 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 clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.