GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which has a core clock frequency of 2321 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2560 SPUs, 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

The Radeon RX 6700 XT, in theory, should be just a bit faster 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 much (more or less 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

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. 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 lots of 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.