GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which features clock speeds of 2321 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (35%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6700 XT will be 7% faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 24576 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be much (about 151%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 223520 (151%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be much (more or less 134%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce RTX 3060, and will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 85184 (134%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.