GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1465 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5700 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce RTX 3060 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 90112 (24%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 will be quite a bit (about 43%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 63120 (43%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is superior to the GeForce RTX 3060, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30400 (48%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics 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 amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.