GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which has core clock speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3060 will be 102% quicker than the Radeon R9 380 2G overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 186240 (102%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is a lot (more or less 36%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39200 (36%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is a lot (more or less 104%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 380 2G, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32320 (104%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.