GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 270, which comes with core speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3060 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 270 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 189440 (106%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be much (more or less 105%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 75840 (105%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is superior to the Radeon R9 270, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34560 (120%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.