GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which has core clock speeds of 2321 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6700 XT will be 7% quicker than the GeForce RTX 3060 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 24576 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT is much (approximately 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 high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a 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 - 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.