GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 390 8G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 390 8G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this model. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon R9 390 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (62%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 390 8G, in theory, should perform a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		384000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 15360 (4%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390 8G is just a bit (approximately 8%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		160000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12160 (8%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 390 8G will be just a bit (more or less 1%) more effective at AA than the GeForce RTX 3060, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		64000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 640 (1%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

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