GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 7900 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 7900 XT, which uses a 5 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1500 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a frequency of 2500 MHz on this specific model. It features 5376 SPUs along with 336 Texture Address Units and 192 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon RX 7900 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 7900 XT is 122% quicker than the GeForce RTX 3060 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT		819200 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 450560 (122%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XT should be much (approximately 241%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT		504000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 356160 (241%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XT is much (about 355%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3060, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT		288000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 224640 (355%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per 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 graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.