GeForce RTX 2070 vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3060, which makes use of a 8 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1320 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1875 MHz on this specific card. It features 3584 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2070 is 24% quicker than the GeForce RTX 3060 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 90112 (24%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is a lot (more or less 37%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55200 (37%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 will be quite a bit (approximately 42%) more effective at AA than the GeForce RTX 3060, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26880 (42%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 ability to get to the max fill rate.