GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1925 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 2250 MHz on this specific model. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 Texture Address Units and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 165 Watts (97%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce RTX 3060 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 221184 (60%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be much (more or less 317%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 468160 (317%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 183040 (289%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.