GeForce RTX 2060 Super vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3060, which uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1320 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 1875 MHz on this card. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 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 2060 Super		175 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 2060 Super should theoretically be much better than the GeForce RTX 3060 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 Super		458752 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 90112 (24%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 Super should be a lot (about 35%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 Super		199920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52080 (35%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 Super will be much (about 48%) better at AA than the GeForce RTX 3060, and capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 Super		94080 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30720 (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.