GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 M265X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M265X, which comes with a core clock speed of 575 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3060 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 M265X overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be much (more or less 543%) better at 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 is a lot (more or less 589%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M265X, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.