GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which has a core clock speed of 2321 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2560 SPUs, 160 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should in theory be a small bit better than the GeForce RTX 3060 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 151%) better at anisotropic filtering 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 (about 134%) better at FSAA than the GeForce RTX 3060, and also should 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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per 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 higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.