GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 295X2, which comes with a clock frequency of 1018 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also makes use of a 512-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 2816 SPUs, 176 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 R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 330 Watts (194%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 295X2 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce RTX 3060 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 271360 (74%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be much (more or less 142%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 210496 (142%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66944 (106%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.